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BRANDON

Volume 4 · 72 words · 1815 Edition

a town of Suffolk in England, seated on the little river Ouse, over which it has a bridge, and a ferry at a mile's distance: whence it is divided into Brandon, and Brandon ferry; which last has the most business, because commodities are brought thither from the isle of Ely. This place gives the British title of duke to the family of Hamilton in Scotland. E. Long. 0°. N. Lat. 52°. 30'.