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GEELONG , a seaport of See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant See also:county, See also:Victoria, See also:Australia, situated on an extensive See also:land-locked See also:arm of See also:Port See also:Phillip known as Corio See also:Bay, 45 M. by See also:rail S.W. of See also:Melbourne. Pop. of the See also:city proper (1901) 12,399; with the adjacent boroughs of Geelong See also:West, and See also:Newton-and-Chilwell, 23,311. Geelong slopes to the bay on the See also:north and to the Barwon See also:river on the See also:south, and its position in this respect, as well as the shelter it obtains from the Bellarine hills, renders it one of the healthiest towns in Victoria. As a manufacturing centre it is of considerable importance. The first woollen See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill in the See also:colony was established here, and the tweeds, cloths and other woollen fabrics of the See also:town are noted throughout Australia. There are extensive tanneries, See also:flour-See also:mills and See also:salt See also:works, while at Fyansford, 3 M. distant, there are important See also:cement works and See also:paper-mills. The extensive See also:vine-yards in the neighbourhood of the town were destroyed under the See also:Phylloxera See also:Act, but replanting subsequently revived this See also:industry. Corio Bay, a safe and commodious See also:harbour, is entered by two channels across its See also:bar, one of which has a See also:depth of 23i ft. There is extensive quayage, and the largest See also:wool See also:ships are able to load alongside the wharves, which are connected by rail withall parts of the colony. The facilities given for See also:shipping wool See also:direct to See also:England from this port have caused a very extensive wool-broking See also:trade to grow up in the town. The See also:country surrounding Geelong is agricultural, but there are large See also:limestone quarries See also:east of the town, and in the See also:Otway See also:Forest, 23 M. distant, See also:coal is worked. Geelong was incorporated in 1849.
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