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  1. Industrial city (meat-packing, paper, cement,
  2. clothing, chemicals) and only seaport in
  3. Alabama, USA; population (1980) 443,500.
  4. Founded 1702 by the French a little to the
  5. north of the present city, Mobile was capital
  6. of the French colony of Louisiana until 1763.
  7. It was then British until 1780, and Spanish
  8. to 1813.
  9.