Crossword-Solution: MATARO 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Don Francisco Salva y Campillo, of Barcelona, in 1795, proposed to make a telegraph between Barcelona and Mataro, either overhead or underground, and he remarks of the wires, 'at the bottom of the sea their bed would be ready made, and it would be an extraordinary casualty that should disturb them.' In Salva's telegraph, the signals were to be made by illuminating letters of tinfoil with the spark.

CHAPTER IX My Short But Happy Stay at Naples--The Duke de Matalone My Daughter--Donna Lucrezia--My Departure I shall not, dear reader, attempt the impossible, however much I should like to describe the joy, the happiness, I may say the ecstasy, which I experienced in returning to Naples, of which I had such pleasant memories, and where, eighteen years ago, I had made my first fortune in returning from Mataro.

CHAPTER IX My Short But Happy Stay at Naples--The Duke de Matalone--My Daughter--Donna Lucrezia--My Departure I shall not, dear reader, attempt the impossible, however much I should like to describe the joy, the happiness, I may say the ecstasy, which I experienced in returning to Naples, of which I had such pleasant memories, and where, eighteen years ago, I had made my first fortune in returning from Mataro.

The Prince of Hesse Darmstadt with two frigates put into the harbor of Mataro for the purpose of obtaining intelligence.

The British imports, chiefly of coal and iron, amount to nearly 1,000,000_l._ sterling; but the exports are a mere trifle, 10,000_l._, most of the ships returning in ballast; while on the contrary, the exports of Tarragona, Palamos, Mataro, and Villamena, and the smaller ports amount to nearly 1,000,000_l._, chiefly in wine, and the imports are only half that amount.