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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 889 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MATLOCK , a See also:

market See also:town in the western See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Derbyshire, See also:England, on the See also:river See also:Derwent, 17 M. N. by W. of See also:Derby on the Midland railway. Pop. (1901), of See also:urban See also:district of Matlock, 5979; of Matlock See also:Bath and Scarthin Nick, 1819. The entire township includes the old See also:village of Matlock, the commercial and manufacturing district of Matlock See also:Bridge, and the fashionable See also:health resorts of Matlock Bath and Matlock See also:Bank. The town possesses See also:cotton, See also:corn and See also:paper See also:mills, while in the vicinity there are See also:stone-quarries and See also:lead mines. A See also:peculiar See also:local See also:industry is the manufacture of so-called " petrified " birds' nests, See also:plants, and other See also:objects. These are steeped in See also:water from the See also:mineral springs until they become encrusted with a calcareous See also:deposit which gives them the See also:appearance of fossils. Ornaments fashioned out of spar and See also:stalactites have also a considerable See also:sale.

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