See also:

• LEON
• LEON, LUIS PONCE DE (1527-1591)
• LEON, MOSES BEN SI
• LEON, or LEON DE LAS ALDAMAS

LEON, or LEON DE See also:

• LAS

LAS ALDAMAS  , a See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of See also:

• GUANAJUATO, or GUANAXUATO
• GUANAJUATO, or SANTA FE DE GUANAJUATO

Guanajuato, See also:

• MEXICO
• MEXICO (Span. Mejico, or Mexico,)
• MEXICO, FEDERAL DISTRICT OF
• MEXICO, GULF OF

Mexico, 209 M . N.W. of the federal See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital and 30 M . W. by N. of the city of Guanajuato . Pop . (1895) 90,978; (1900) 62,623, See also:

• LEON
• LEON, LUIS PONCE DE (1527-1591)
• LEON, MOSES BEN SI
• LEON, or LEON DE LAS ALDAMAS

Leon ranking See also:

• FOURTH

fourth in the latter See also:

• YEAR

year among the cities of Mexico . The Mexican Central gives it railway connexion with the See also:

• NATIONAL

national capital and other prominent cities of the See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

Republic . Leon stands in a fertile See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain on the See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks of the Turbio, a tributary of the Rio Grande de See also:

• LERMA, FRANCISCO DE SANDOVAL Y ROJAS, DUKE OF (1552–1625)

Lerma, at an See also:

• ELEVATION

elevation of 5862 ft. above See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-level and in the midst of very attractive surroundings . The See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country about Leon is considered to be one of the richest cereal-producing districts of Mexico . The city itself is subject to disastrous floods, sometimes leading to loss of See also:

• LIFE

life as well ascathedral and a See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre, the latter one of the largest and finest in the republic . The city is regularly built, with wide streets and numerous shady parks and gardens . It manufactures See also:

• SADDLERY

saddlery and other See also:

• LEATHER (a word which appears in all Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Leder, Dutch leer or leder, Swed. leder, and in such Celtic forms as Welsh llader)
• LEATHER, ARTIFICIAL

leather See also:

• WORK

work, See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold and See also:

• SILVER

silver embroideries, See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton and woollen goods, especially rebozos (See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long shawls), See also:

• SOAP

soap and See also:

• CUTLERY (Fr. coutellerie, from the Lat. cultellus, a little knife)

cutlery . There are also tanneries and See also:

• FLOUR

flour See also:

• MILLS, JOHN (d. 1736)
• MILLS, ROGER QUARLES (1832– )

mills .

The city has a considerable See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade in See also:

• WHEAT
• WHEAT (Triticum)

wheat and flour . The first See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement of Leon occurred in 1552, but its formal See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation was in 1576, and it did not reach the dignity of a city until 1836 . damage to See also:

• PROPERTY

property, as in the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• FLOOD (in O. Eng. flod, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Flut, Dutch vloed, from the same root as is seen in " flow," " float ")
• FLOOD, HENRY (1732-1791)

flood of 1889 .