Fray Bentos (officially Independencia), capital of the Uruguayan department of Rio Negro, on the Uruguay River, 72 miles SSW. of Paysandú, with an English chapel and some 2500 inhabitants. Here is the factory of the Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, employing nearly a thousand persons.
Fray Bentos
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction
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