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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 628 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FOOTSCRAY , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

BOURKE

Bourke See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

Victoria, See also:

AUSTRALIA

Australia, on the Saltwater See also:

RIVER

river, 4 M. W. of and suburban to See also:

Melbourne. Pop. (1901) 18,301. The city has large bluestone quarries from which most of the See also:

BUILDING

building stones in Melbourne and the See also:

NEIGHBOUR (O. Eng. neahgebiir, from Walt, " nigh," " near ")

neighbour-See also:

hood is obtained; it is also an important manufacturing centre, with numerous See also:

SUGAR

sugar-See also:

mills, jute factories, See also:

SOAP

soap See also:

WORKS

works, woollen-mills, foundries, chemical works and many other See also:

minor See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries. See also:

FOOT

FOOT-See also:

STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors

STALL, a word supposed to be a literal See also:

TRANSLATION

translation of piedestal, or See also:

PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedestallo, foot of a stall)

pedestal, the See also:

LOWER

lower See also:

PART

part of a See also:

PIER (older forms per or Pere, from Med. Lat. pera; the word for piers out of water. For river piers, where a firm, watertight is of obscure origin, and the connexion with Fr. Pierre, Lat. stratum is found at a moderate depth below the river-bed, the pctr

pier in See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture (see See also:

BASE

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