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BALMAIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 283 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BALMAIN , a See also:

town of See also:Cumberland See also:county, N.S.W., See also:Australia, on the western See also:shore of See also:Darling See also:Harbour, See also:Port See also:Jackson, 2 M. by See also:water from See also:Sydney and suburban to it. Pop. (1901) 30,881. It is the See also:home of See also:great See also:numbers of the working classes of Sydney and some of the largest factories and most important docks are situated here. Saw-See also:mills, See also:iron foundries, chemicals, See also:glass and See also:soap See also:works, See also:shipbuilding yards and a cocoanut-oil factory in connexion with the soap-manufacture at Port Sunlight, See also:England,are among the See also:chief See also:industrial establishments. Balmain became a See also:municipality in ,86o.

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