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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 665 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BELFAST , a See also:

city, See also:port of entry, and the See also:county-seat of See also:Waldo county, See also:Maine, U.S.A., on Belfast See also:Bay (an See also:arm of the See also:Penobscot), and about 32 M. See also:south-south-See also:west of See also:Bangor. Pop. (1890) 5294; (1910) 4618. It is served by the Belfast See also:branch of the Maine Central railway (connecting with the See also:main See also:line at Burnham Junction, 33 M. distant), and by the See also:coasting steamers (from See also:Boston) of the Eastern Steamship Co. The city, a summer resort, lies on an undulating hillside, which rises from the See also:water's edge to a height of more than 15o ft., and commands extensive views of the picturesque islands, headlands, and mountains of the Maine See also:coast. It has a public library. Among the See also:industries of Belfast are See also:trade with the surrounding See also:country, the manufacture of shoes, See also:leather boards, axes, and sashes, doors and blinds, and the See also:building and repairing of boats. Its exports in 1908 were valued at $285,913 and its imports at $10,313. Belfast was first settled (by Scottish-Irish) in 1769, and in 1773 was incorporated as a See also:town under its See also:present name (from Belfast, See also:Ireland). The town was almost completely destroyed by the See also:British in 1779, but its rebuilding was begun in the next See also:year. It was held by a British force for five days in See also:September 1814. Belfast was chartered as a city in 1850.

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