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PORT PIRIE

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 128 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PORT

PORT PIRIE , a See also:

TOWN

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Victoria 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)

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ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

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Spencer Gulf, 1681 m. by See also:

RAIL

rail N. by W. of See also:

Adelaide. It is a prosperous and well-equipped port, from which enormous quantities of See also:

wheat are annually shipped. Pop. (1801), 7983.

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