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Volume 17 · 54 words · 1860 Edition

a town of England, county of Cornwall, on the estuary of the Camel, 26 miles N. by E. of Falmouth. It is an old-fashioned fishing-town, and contains an old Gothic church, a custom-house, and some other public buildings. Ship-building is the business chiefly carried on. Corn, slate, and other minerals are exported. Pop. 2224.