Selma, capital of Dallas county, Alabama, on the Alabama River, and at the intersection of a number of railways, 165 miles by rail NNE. of Mobile. It has a large trade in cotton, and possesses ironworks, cotton-factories, steam planing-mills, car-works, &c. Pop. (1890) 7626.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 308
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