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Volume 12 · 67 words · 1815 Edition

a sea port town of Cumberland, situated at the mouth of the Elne. It has a good harbour; and has 70 or 80 sail of shipping from 30 to 250 tons burden, principally employed in the coal trade; some of them sail up the Baltic for timber, flax, iron, &c. They have a furnace for cast iron and a glass-house. A chapel was erected here in 1760.