CATTARO, the southernmost of the circles into which the Austrian kingdom of Dalmatia is divided. It is surrounded, except on the sea frontier, by the Turkish dominions, and comprehends the district distinguished as the Mouth of the Cattaro. It extends over 585 square miles, or 366,000 English acres, and contains about 30,000 inhabitants. Although sufficient corn for the consumption of only five months is raised, the other products, which furnish a considerable export trade, are both valuable and abundant. It affords oil, wine, figs, silk, wool, tallow, wax, honey, and fish. The inhabitants also buy many sheep and oxen of the people of Montenegro, which they salt and export, as they do much cheese, chiefly from the Turks.
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