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KINGSTOWN , a seaport of Co. See also:Dublin, See also:Ireland, in the See also:south See also:parliamentary See also:division, at the south-eastern extremity of Dublin See also:Bay, 6 m. S.E. from Dublin by the Dublin & South-Eastern railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901), 17,377. It is a large seaport and favourite watering-See also:place, and possesses several See also:fine streets, with electric trams, and terraces commanding picturesque See also:sea views. The See also:original name of Kingstown was Dunleary, which was exchanged for the See also:present designation after the embarkation of See also:George IV. at the See also:port on his return from Ireland in 1821, an event which is also commemorated by a See also:granite See also:obelisk erected near the See also:harbour. The See also:town was a See also:mere fishing See also:village until the construction of an extensive harbour, begun in 1817 and finally completed in 1859. The eastern See also:pier has a length of 3500 ft. and the western of 4950 ft., the See also:total See also:area enclosed being about 250 acres, with a varying See also:depth of from 15 to 27 ft. Kingstown is the station of the See also:City of Dublin See also:Steam Packet See also:Company's See also:mail steamers to See also:Holyhead in connexion with the See also:London & See also:North-Western railway. It has large export and import See also:trade both with See also:Great See also:Britain and See also:foreign countries. The See also:principal export is See also:cattle, and the principal imports See also:corn and provisions. Kingstown is the centre of an extensive sea-See also:fishery; and there are three yacht clubs: the Royal Irish, Royal St George and Royal See also:Alfred.
See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
KING-TE CHEN, a town near Fu-liang Hien, in the See also:province of Kiang-si, See also:China, and the principal seat of the See also:porcelain manufacture in that See also:empire. Being situated on the south See also:bank of the See also:river Chang, it was in See also:ancient times known as Chang-nan Chen, or " town on the south of the river Chang." It is unwalled, and straggles along the bank of the river. The streets are narrow, and crowded with a See also:population which is reckoned at a million, the vast See also:majority of whom find employment at the porcelainfactories. Since the Ch'in See also:dynasty (557–589) this has been the great trade of the place, which was then called by its earlier name. In the reign of King-te (Chen-tsung) of the Sung dynasty, See also:early in the See also:firth See also:century A.D., a manufactory was founded there for making vases and See also:objects of See also:art for the use of the See also:emperor. Hence its See also:adoption of its present See also:title. Since the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the Ming dynasty a See also:magistrate has been specially appointed to superintend the factories and to despatch at regulated intervals the imperial porcelain to See also:Peking. The town is situated on a vast See also:plain surrounded by mountains, and boasts of three thousand porcelain furnaces. These constantly burning fires are the causes of frequent conflagrations, and at See also:night give the city the See also:appearance of a place on See also:fire. The See also:people are as a See also:rule orderly, though they have on several occasions shown a hostile bearing towards foreign visitors. This is probably to be accounted for by a See also:desire to keep their art as far as possible a See also:mystery, which appears less unreasonable when it is remembered that the two kinds of See also:earth of which the porcelain is made are not found at King-te Chen, but are brought from K'i-See also:mun in the neighbouring province of Nganhui, and that there is therefore no See also:reason why the trade should be necessarily maintained at that place. The two kinds of earth are known as pai-See also:tun-tsze, which is a fine fusible See also:quartz See also:powder, and kao-lin, which is not fusible, and is said to give strength to the See also:ware. Both materials are prepared in the shape of bricks at K'i-mun, and are brought down the Chang to the seat of the manufacture.
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