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PORTPATRICK

Volume 18 · 258 words · 1860 Edition

the West Indies, being well built of stone and brick, and having broad and regular streets, some of them adorned with rows of trees. It contains a government-house, court-house, a good market-house, churches belonging to the Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, and Roman Catholics, several schools, a lunatic asylum, hospital, and jail. In the vicinity of the town are botanic gardens and St James's barracks, which are built in one of the most unhealthy spots in Trinidad. Port of Spain has a large and good harbour, where an active trade is carried on. Pop. 11,693.a seaport-town and parish of Scotland, in the county of Wigton, built partly on the slope of a hill on the shore of the Irish Channel, 6½ miles S.S.W. of Stranraer, and 109 S.W. of Edinburgh. The principal street extends in a curve along the shore of the bay, and some smaller streets branch off from it. The houses are for the most part well built and slated. There are here an Established church, a Free church, several schools, and a pub- Port Philip is a large bay of Australia, in the colony of Victoria, about 35 miles in length and as much in breadth, with an entrance not quite 2 miles wide; S. Lat. (of Point Nepean at the entrance) 38° 18', E. Long. 144° 42'. On its west side is an inlet, at the head of which the town of Geelong stands; and at its northern extremity the Yarra-Yarra flows into Port Philip, having Melbourne on its banks about 8 miles up. (See MELBOURNE.)