LIVERPOOL, a seaport town of Nova Scotia, capital of Queen's County, on the right bank of a cognominal stream, near its mouth, 75 miles S.S.W. of Halifax; N. Lat. 44. 3., W. Long. 64. 42. It is regularly laid out, and contains several good public buildings. The harbour is commodious, but the bar admits only vessels of light draught. Timber and dried fish are exported in large quantities to the West Indies and the United States. In 1851, 84 vessels, of the aggregate burden of 9808 tons, and 104 of 12,640 tons, cleared at the port. The exports in that year amounted in value to £30,392, of which to the value of £28,049 were sent to the West Indian Islands. Pop. of county (1851) 7256.