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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 532 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PLYMOUTH
PLYMOUTH, EARLS OF

PLYMOUTH , a See also:

MUNICIPALITY

municipality and seaport on the See also:

west See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

North See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island, New See also:

ZEALAND (also SEALAND Or SEELAND; Danish Sjaelland)

Zealand, See also:

capital of the provincial See also:

DISTRICT

district of Taranaki, 258, m. N.N.W. of See also:

Wellington by See also:

RAIL

rail. Pop. (1906) 5141. The See also:

TOWN

town slopes to the ocean, with a background of See also:

FOREST

forest surmounted by the See also:

SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow-clad volcanic See also:

CONE (Gr. Kwvos)

cone of See also:

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount See also:

Egmont (8270 ft.). The district is not unjustly termed " the See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden of New Zealand." It is highly fertile, cereals and fruits growing well; and See also:

DAIRY

dairy products are extensively exported. In the town are See also:

leather-See also:

WORKS

works, See also:

TIMBER

timber-works and See also:

FLOUR

flour-See also:

mills, with freezing-works for export dairy produce. The See also:

settlement was founded in 1841 by the Plymouth See also:

COMPANY

Company under the auspices of the New Zealand Company, and chiefly consisted of emigrants from See also:

Devonshire and See also:

CORNWALL

Cornwall. On the seashore in the neighbourhood are extensive deposits of ironsand.

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