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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 910 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STEVENSTON , a manufacturing See also:

town of See also:Ayrshire, See also:Scotland. Pop. (1901), 6554. It is situated about 1 m. from See also:Saltcoats on the See also:coast of the See also:Firth of See also:Clyde, 29 m. S.W. of See also:Glasgow by the Glasgow & See also:South-Western railway. There are See also:coal-mines, several ironworks—one is among the largest in Scotland —and, on the sandhills along the See also:shore, the See also:works of See also:Nobel's See also:Explosives See also:Company, which See also:cover an See also:area of a mile, the See also:separate-hut principle being adopted to minimize the risks attendant upon so dangerous an occupation.

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