Santa Fé, the capital of New Mexico, is built among the Rocky Mountains, 6840 feet above the sea, and 1327 miles by rail WSW. of Chicago. The climate is very dry, so that irrigation is necessary for agriculture; and most of the houses are built of adobe. It is an old Spanish-American town, and is still a Roman Catholic archbishop's see. Pop. (1890) 6713.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 156
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