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FORT SCOTT height of 1,435 feet above the sea level. Its N. face is almost perpendicular, while its E. side is full of tremendous precipices. On the S. it terminates in what is called Europa Point. The W. side is less steep than the E., and between its base and the sea is the narrow, almost level, span on which the town of Gibraltar is built. The fortress is considered impregrnable to military assault. The regular garrison in time of peace numbers about 7,000. It belongs to England.  FORT SCOTT, a city of Kansas, the county-seat of Bourbon county. It is on the St. Louis and San Francisco, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and the Missouri Pacific railroads. It is also on the Marmaton river. It is the center of important deposits of coal, cement, clay, zinc, and lead. The industries include foundry and machine shops, flour mills, cement works, and manufactures of harness, medicines, etc. Pop. (1910) 10,463; (1920) 10,693.  FORT SMITH, a city of Arkansas, one of the county-seats of Sebastian co. It is at the junction of the Arkansas and Poteau rivers, and is on the St. Louis and San Francisco, the Arkansas Central, the Midland Valley, the Kansas City Southern, the Fort Smith and Western, and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railroads. It is an important wholesale jobbing center for the surrounding country, and has a large trade in coal, cotton, lumber, etc. Its industries include saw and planing mills, iron and steel mills, and manufactures of brooms, stoves, overalls, refrigerators, etc. The river is spanned within the city limits by four steel bridges. It has a United States court house and post office, a high school, a public library, a city park, several hospitals, and a national cemetery. Pop. (1910) 23,975; (1920) 28,870.  FORTUNA, in mythology, daughter of Oceanus according to Homer, or one of the Parcæ according to Pindar, was the goddess of fortune, and from her hand were derived riches and poverty, pleasures and pains, blessings and misfortunes. She was worshipped in different parts of Greece. Bupalus was the first who modeled a statue of Fortuna for the people of Smyrna, and he represented her with the polar star upon her head, and the horn of plenty in her hand. The Romans held her in high esteem, and had no less than eight different temples erected to her honor in their city. She is generally represented blindfolded, and holding a wheel in her hand, as an emblem of her inconstancy. Sometimes she appears with wings.  FORT WAYNE, a city and county-seat of Allen co., Ind.; at the confluence of the St. Mary and St. Joseph rivers, and on the Wabash, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, the Lake Erie and Western, the Grand Rapids and Indiana, the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville, and other railroads; 43 miles S. W. of Defiance, O. It is built on a high plateau, covers an area of about 10 square miles, and is popularly known as Summit City. Here are a United States Government building, several county buildings, Concordia College (Luth.), and several other educational institutions, Hope and St. Joseph Hospitals. Fort Wayne has street railroads, electric lights, sewerage system, improved waterworks, several National banks, and numerous daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. Among the industries are extensive railroad, machine and repair shops which occupy many acres, flour mills, knitting mills, oil-tank works, and packing houses. The French visited this locality about 1700, and shortly afterward a trading post named Fort Miami was founded. The English constructed a fort near the place in 1760. General Wayne located a government post here in 1794. Pop. (1910) 63,933; (1920) 86,549.  FORT WILLIAM, a city of Canada, in the Thunder Bay District, in the Province of Ontario. It is on the Kaministiquia river, at its entrance into Lake Superior. The city has excellent harbor facilities and carries on a large lake traffic. It is the head of lake navigation on Lake Superior and is the entrance of the wheat fields of western Canada. It has repair shops of the Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk Pacific, and Canadian Northern railroads. Its industries include flour mills, stove works, machine-shop, and car-wheel foundries, shipbuilding, brickyards, breweries, etc. The city has a large number of grain elevators. There is a number of fine public buildings including a city hall, a court house, hospitals, parks, a library, and a collegiate institute. Pop. (1920) about 20,000.  FORT WORTH, a city of Texas, the county-seat of Tarrant co. It is on the Texas and Pacific, the International and Great Northern, the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, the Fort Worth and Denver City, the St. Louis and San Francisco, and other railroads. It is also on Trinity river. Fort Worth is the center of a large stock-raising and agricultural district and has a large jobbing trade in general commodities,