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BURLINGTON

Volume 2 · 71 words · 1778 Edition

a sea-port town in the east riding of Yorkshire, situated on the German ocean, about 37 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 20 miles north of Philadelphia. W. Long. 74.0. and N. Lat. 40.40.