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AMHERST

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 853 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMHERST  , the

county
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town of Cumberland county, and
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port of entry in Novia Scotia,
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Canada, at the head of Chignecto
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Bay and on the Intercolonial railway, 138 in. from Halifax . Pop . (1901) 4964 . It is situated in a rich agricultural and
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mining
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district, and contains county and railway buildings and numerous mills and factories . It is the distributing centre for the surrounding district, and exports railway carriages, engines, boilers, stoves, &c .

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