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NIMEGUEN

Volume 13 · 148 words · 1797 Edition

a large, handsome, and strong town of the Netherlands, and capital of Dutch Guelderland, with a citadel, an ancient palace, and several forts. It is noted for the peace concluded there in 1679. It has a magnificent town-house, and the inhabitants are greatly given to trade. It is seated on the Vahal or Wahal, between the Rhine and the Maes. It is the utmost eastern boundary of the Netherlands. It contains two Dutch churches, a French Calvinist and a Lutheran church, five Popish, and several hospitals. It was once a Hans-town and an imperial city. It is now the seat of government, has a canal to Arnhem, and considerable trade to some parts of Germany: it trades also in fine beer-brewing, fattening of cattle, and exporting of its butter, which is extremely good, into all the other provinces. It is in E. Long. 5°. N. Lat. 51°. 55'.