Melo, a town of Cerro Largo in Uruguay, on the Tacuari, here crossed by a stone bridge, 'built in 1865 by a Frenchman who was murdered for collecting toll' (Mulhall). Pop. 5000.
Melo
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 126
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