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BURLINGTON

Volume 5 · 79 words · 1810 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. o. 10. and N. Lat. 54. 15. It gave the title of earl to a branch of the noble family of Boyle, but the earldom is now extinct.

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. o. N. Lat. 40. 40.