FORT LAUDERDALE, a city of south-eastern Florida, U.S.A., on the Atlantic ocean, 26m. above Miami; the county seat of Broward county. It is on the Atlantic Coast and the Dixie highways and is served by the Florida. East. Coast and the Seaboard Air Line railways. The population was 13,187 in 1927, by a special enumeration under the Federal census bureau, but in 1930 it was 8,666. Within the city limits are over loom. of ocean, bay, river and canal frontage, and in 1928 a 35ft. harbour (Port Everglades), planned for completion in the following year, was under construction at Bay Mabel. Near by are the pictur esque Everglades, abounding in tropical vegetation, in which the Seminole Indians still live in their primitive manner. The city was founded in 1837 and incorporated in 1911.