PONCE  , a seaport and the second largest See also:

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

city of See also:

• PORTO

Porto Rico, the seat of See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government of the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

Department of Ponce, on the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south See also:

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

coast, about 50 M . (84 M. by the military road) S.W. of See also:

• SAN

San Juan . Pop . (1899), 27,952, of whom 2554 were negroes and 9942 of mixed races; (1910), 35,027 . It is served by the See also:

• AMERICAN

American Railroad of Porto Rico, by a railway to See also:

• GUAYAMA

Guayama (1910), and by steamboats from numerous ports; an old military road connects it with San Juan . Ponce consists of two parts: Ponce, or the city proper, and Ponce See also:

• PLAYA (a Spanish word meaning " shore ")

Playa, or the seaport; they are separated by the Portuguese See also:

• RIVER

River and are connected by an electric See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

street railway . Ponce Playa is on a spacious See also:

• BAY

bay and is accessible to vessels See also:

• DRAWING

drawing 25 ft. of See also:

• WATER

water; Ponce is 2 in. inland at the interior margin of a beautiful See also:

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

plain, with hills in the See also:

• REAR

rear rising to a height of loon to 2000 ft . The city is supplied with water by an See also:

• AQUEDUCT (Lat. aqua, water, and ducere, to lead; Gr. apaymryeiov, apayeeywov, vlrovopos)

aqueduct about 2 M. See also:

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

long . There are two attractive public squares in the See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

heart of the city: Plaza See also:

• PRINCIPAL

Principal and Plaza de See also:

• LAS

las Delicias . Among prominent public buildings are the city See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

hall, the See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom-See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house, the See also:

• PEARL
• PEARL, THE

Pearl See also:

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

theatre, several churches—See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic (including a finely decorated See also:

• CATHEDRAL

cathedral) and See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant; St See also:

• LUKE
• LUKE, GOSPEL OF ST

Luke's See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital and insane See also:

• ASYLUM (from Gr. b.-, privative, arid earl, right'of seizure)
• ASYLUM, RIGHT OF (Fr. droit d'asile; Ger. Asylrecht)

asylum, an asylumfor the See also:

• BLIND, MATHILDE (1841—1896)

blind, a ladies' asylum, a See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home for the indigent and aged, and a military See also:

• BARRACKS (derived through the French from the Late Lat. barra, a bar)
• BARRACKS, CAMP

barracks . At the See also:

• QUINTANA, MANUEL JOSE (1772-1857)

Quintana See also:

• BATHS

Baths near the city are thermal springs with medicinal properties . The surrounding 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 is devoted chiefly to the cultivation of See also:

• SUGAR

sugar See also:

• CANE

cane, See also:

• TOBACCO

tobacco, oranges and cacao, and to the grazing of See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle .

Among the manufactures are sugar, See also:

• MOLASSES

molasses, See also:

• RUM
• RUM (according to Skeat, a corruption of Malay brum or bram; the adjective " rum," i.e. " queer," being a distinct word, in Gipsy rem)

rum, and See also:

• ICE (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Eis)

ice, and prepared See also:

• COFFEE (Fr: cafe, Ger. Kaffee)

coffee for the See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market . Ponce, named in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of Ponce de See also:

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

Leon, was founded in 1752 upon the site of a See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement which had been established in the preceding See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, was incorporated as a See also:

• TOWN

town in 1848, and was made a city in 1878 .