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BURLINGTON

Volume 1 · 73 words · 1771 Edition

a sea-port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, situated on the German ocean, about thirty-seven miles north-east of York: E. long. 10', and N. lat. 54° 15'.

It gives the title of earl to a branch of the noble family of Boyle.

NEW BURLINGTON, the capital of New-Jersey, in North America; situated in an island of Delaware river, about twenty miles north of Philadelphia: W. long. 74°, and N. lat. 40° 40'.