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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 740 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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QUEENSTOWN , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Montagu 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, See also:

TASMANIA

Tasmania, on the See also:

Queen See also:

RIVER

river, 23 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail by Strahan, and 353 M. W. of See also:

Hobart. It is the centre of the See also:

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount See also:

LYELL, SIR CHARLES (1797-1875)

Lyell See also:

MINING

mining See also:

DISTRICT

district and has numerous smelting See also:

WORKS

works, See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick-works, and sawmills. The county is mountainous and finely wooded. Pop. (19or) 5051; of the district, 10,451.

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