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OOSTERHOUT

Volume 16 · 52 words · 1860 Edition

a town of Holland, in the province of North Brabant, 5 miles N.E. of Breda. It has a townhouse, churches, and schools. There are here potteries, producing a kind of earthenware which is highly prized; besides breweries, tanneries, corn-mills, &c. Some trade is carried on in corn, timber, and cloth. Pop. 7500.