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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 181 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SWANAGE , a watering-See also:

place and seaport in the eastern See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Dorsetshire, See also:England, 9 M. S.S.W. from See also:Bournemouth by See also:sea, and 132 M. S.W. by W. from See also:London by the London & See also:South-Western railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901), 3408. It lies on the picturesque Swanage See also:Bay, on the See also:east See also:coast of the so-called Isle of Purbeck, the district lying south of See also:Poole See also:Harbour. The coast is See also:wild and precipitous, and numerous caves occur in the cliffs. Inland are open, high-lying See also:downs. Swanage Bay has a beautiful sandy See also:beach affording excellent bathing. In the See also:town, the See also:church 1870, p. 430) from a single specimen in the Museum of Pelting, should be removed from the sub-See also:family Cygninae. Of C. coscoroba Mr See also:Gibson remarks (See also:Ibis, 188o, pp. 36, 37) that its " See also:note is a loud See also:trumpet-See also:call," and that it swims with " the See also:neck curved and the wings raised after the true See also:swan See also:model." t Commonly quoted as Oud en nieuw See also:Oast Indien (See also:Amsterdam, 1726).

The, incidents of the voyage are related in Deel iii. Hoofdst. iv. (which has for its See also:

title Description of See also:Banda), pp. 68–71. of St See also:Mary has a massive See also:tower possibly of pre-See also:Norman date; 26 other churches and ro See also:mission rooms belonging to the Church there are a town-See also:hall, an See also:institute with library and lecture hall, of England, besides 2 See also:Roman See also:Catholic churches, a See also:synagogue and memorials to a victory gained by See also:King See also:Alfred over the and 84 See also:Nonconformist chapels (31 Welsh and 53 See also:English) and Danes in the bay in 877, and to See also:Albert, See also:Prince See also:Consort. A 20 mission rooms, but all are See also:modern buildings. There are large export See also:trade is carried on in See also:stone from the Purbeck 9 ecclesiastical parishes and parts of two or three others, all in the quarries. See also:diocese of St Davids.

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