Otago
one of the provincial districts of New Zealand, including the whole of the S. part of South Island, S. of the districts of Canterbury and Westland, being surrounded on the other three sides by the sea; area, about 15,000,000 acres.
The interior is mountainous; many peaks attain the height of from 3,000 to 9,000 feet, but there is much pastoral land; the N. E. consists of extensive plains.
Otago, though it possesses valuable gold fields, is chiefly a pastoral and agricultural district, second only to Canterbury in wheat production. Coal has been found in abundance. Otago was founded mal School, United States Government in 1848 by the Scotch Free Church Asbuilding, Gerritt Smith library, orphan sociation; it is now the most populous asylum, public hospital, high school, division of the colony. The capital is electric light and street railroad plants, National and savings banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. There are manufactories of boilers and engines, tools, pumps, automobile parts, hosiery, matches, starch, etc. Oswego has regular steamboat communication with the cities of the Great Lakes; imports about $1,400,000, and exports, $4,000,000. Pop. (1910) 23,368; (1920) 23.626.
OSWEGO, FORT, an old French fort, built on the site of the present city of on the site site of the present city Oswego, N. Y., by Count Frontenac, about 1696. Fort Ontario, however, was built on the opposite side of the Oswego river in 1755, and at once took the preconsiderable fighting during the French and Revolutionary Wars, and once in 1814. cedence. Both forts were the scenes of