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Santa Cruz Islands

an archipel, ago in the Pacific Ocean, between the New Hebrides and the Solomon Islands; area, 360 square miles. It is under British protectorate.

SANTA FÉ a city, capital of the State of New Mexico, and count county-seat of Santa Fé co.; on Santa Fé creek, and on the Denver and Rio Grande, the Atchi, son, Topeka, and Santa Fé, and the New Mexico Central railroads; 20 miles E. of the Rio Grande, and 275 miles S. by W. of Denver, Col. The city contains a United States Government building, the Capitol built of cream sandstone, court house, the University of New Mexico, St. Michael's College (R. C.), Loretto Academy, New Mexico School for the Deaf and Dumb, schools for Indian boys and girls, the School of American Archæology, penitentiary, Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, St. Vincent's Hospital, etc. There are also waterworks, electric lights, a National bank and daily and several weekly newspapers. The industries consist principally of farming, mining, and stock raising. The climate is very agreeable. In the old city the unpaved streets are narrow, crooked, and ancient looking, and the buildings are railroad, about 185 miles east-southeast nearly all of adobe and one story high. of Havana. It is the second largest city When first visited by the Spaniards,

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