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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 649 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PALMERSTON , the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

TOWN

town of the See also:

NORTHERN

Northern Territory of See also:

South See also:

AUSTRALIA

Australia, in Palmerston See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, on the E. See also:

SHORE

shore of See also:

PORT

Port See also:

Darwin, 2000 M. See also:

DIRECT

direct N.N.W. of See also:

Adelaide. The town stands 6o ft. above the level of the See also:

sea, by which it is almost surrounded. There are a See also:

government See also:

house, a town See also:

hall, and an experimental nursery 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. Palmerston has a magnificent See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour, accessible to ocean-going vessels, and the See also:

JETTY

jetty is connected by See also:

RAIL

rail with Playford, 146 m. distant. Cool breezes See also:

BLOW, JOHN (1648-1708)

blow almost continuously throughout the See also:

YEAR

year. The mean See also:

ANNUAL

annual rainfall is 62.21 in. Pop. (19o1), 1973, mostly See also:

CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

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