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SCHIEDAM

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 323 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCHIEDAM , a See also:

town and See also:river See also:port of See also:Holland, in the See also:province of See also:South Holland, on the Schie, near its confluence with the See also:Maas, and a junction station 3 M. by See also:rail and See also:steam See also:tramway W. of See also:Rotterdam. Pop. (19o5) 29,227. The public buildings of See also:interest are the' Groote or Janskerk, the old See also:Roman See also:Catholic zhurch, the See also:synagogue, the town-See also:hall, the See also:exchange, the See also:concert-hall and a ruined See also:castle. Schiedam is famous as the seat of a 323 See also:great See also:gin manufacture, which, carried on in more than three See also:hundred distilleries, gives employment besides to See also:malt-factories, cooperages and See also:cork-cutting establishments, and supplies See also:grain refuse enough to feed about 30,000 pigs, as well as sufficient yeast to See also:form an important See also:article of export. Other See also:industries include See also:shipbuilding, See also:glass-blowing and the manufacture of stearine candles.

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