NATAL  , a See also:

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

city and See also:

• PORT

port of See also:

• BRAZIL
• BRAZIL, or BRASIL

Brazil and See also:

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

capital of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of Rio Grande do Norte, on the right See also:

• BANK

bank of the Rio Potengy, or Rio Grande do Norte, about 2 M. above its mouth . Pop. of the See also:

• MUNICIPALITY

municipality (1890) 13,725 . Natal is the starting-point of the Natal and Nova Cruz railway, and is a port of See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call for See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast-See also:

• WISE, HENRY ALEXANDER (1806-1876)
• WISE, ISAAC MAYER (1819-1900)

wise steamers, which usually See also:

• ANCHOR (from the Greek ayrcvpa, which Vossius considers is from 6yi17 , a crook or hook)

anchor outside the See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar . It is a stagnant, poorly built See also:

• TOWN

town of one-storeyed houses and mud-walled cabins, with few public edifices and business houses of a better type . The only See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry of See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note is the manufacture of 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 . The exports are chiefly See also:

• SUGAR

sugar and cotton . Natal was founded in 1597 as a military See also:

• POST

post to check an illicit 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 Brazil-See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood . In 1633 it was occupied by the Dutch, who remained until 1654 . It became the capital' of a See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province in 1820 . In See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• WORKS

works it is sometimes termed Cidade dos Reis (City of the See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

Kings) .