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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 887 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KOKOMO , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Howard county, See also:Indiana, U.S.A., on the Wildcat See also:River, about 5.o m. N. of See also:Indianapolis. Pop. (1890), 8261; (1900), 10,609 of whom 499 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 359 negroes; (1910 See also:census), 17,010. It is served by the See also:Lake See also:Erie & Western, the See also:Pittsburg See also:Cincinnati See also:Chicago & St See also:Louis, and the See also:Toledo St Louis & Western See also:railways, and by two interurban electric lines. Kokomo is a centre of See also:trade in agricultural products, and has various manufactures, including See also:flint, See also:plate and opalescent See also:glass, &c. The See also:total value of the factory product increased from $2,062,156 in 'goo to $3,651,105 in 1905, or 77.1 %; and in 1905 the glass product was valued at $864,567, or 23.7 % of the total. Kokomo was settled about 184o and became a city (under a See also:state See also:law) in 1865. KOKO-NOR (or Kuxu-Nog) (Tsing-See also:hai of the See also:Chinese, and Tso-ngombo of the Tanguts), a lake of Central See also:Asia, situated at an See also:altitude of 9975 ft., in the extreme N.E. of See also:Tibet, 30 M. from the W. frontier of the Chinese See also:province of Kan-suh, in See also:roe E. and 370 N. It lies amongst the eastern ranges of the Kuen-lun,, having the Nan-shan Mountains to the See also:north, and the See also:southern Kokonor range (10,000 ft.) on the See also:south. It See also:measures 66 m. by 40 m., and contains See also:half a dozen islands, on one of which is a Buddhist (i.e. Lamaist) monastery, to which pilgrims resort.

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water is See also:salt, though an abundance of See also:fish live in it, and it often remains frozen for three months together in See also:winter. The See also:surface is at times subject to considerable See also:variations of level. The lake is entered on the See also:west by the river Buhain-gol. The nomads who dwell See also:round its shores are Tanguts.

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