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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 640 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FORBES , a municipal See also:

town of See also:Ashburnham See also:county, New See also:South See also:Wales, See also:Australia, 289 M. W. by N. from See also:Sydney, on the Lachlan See also:river, and with a station on the See also:Great Western railway. Pop. (1901) 4313. Its importance as a commercial centre is due to its advantageous position between the See also:northern and See also:southern markets. It has See also:steam-sawing and See also:flour-See also:mills, breweries and See also:wool-scouring establishments; while the surrounding See also:country produces See also:good quantities of cereals, See also:lucerne, See also:wine and See also:fruit. FORBES-See also:ROBERTSON, See also:JOHNSTON (1853— ), See also:English actor, was the son of See also:John Forbes-Robertson of See also:Aberdeen, an See also:art critic. He was educated at See also:Charterhouse, and studied at the Royal See also:Academy See also:schools with a view to becoming a painter. But though he kept up his See also:interest in that art, in 1874 he turned mainly spent in his native See also:village. He died at See also:Padua in 1768 before the completion of the great See also:work on which he had See also:long co-operated with See also:Facciolati. This was the vast Latin See also:Lexicon (see FACCIOLATI), which has formed the basis of all similar See also:works that have since been published. He was engaged with his Herculean task for nearly 35 years, and the transcription of the See also:manuscript by See also:Luigi Violato occupied eight years more.

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