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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 777 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DALRY (Gaelic, " the field of the king ")  , a
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mining and manufacturing
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town of
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Ayrshire, Scotland, on the Garnock, 234 M . S.W. of
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Glasgow, by the Glasgow & South-Western railway . Pop . (1901) 5316 . The public buildings include the library and
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reading-
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room, the assembly rooms, Davidshill hospital,
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Temperance hall and
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night asylum . There is a public park . The
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industries consist of woollen factories, worsted spinning, box-,
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cabinet-, coke- and brick-making, machine-knitting, currying and the manufacture of aerated waters .
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Coal and iron are found, but mining is not extensively pursued . In the vicinity are the iron
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works of Blair and Glengarnock, and a curious stalactite cave, known as Elf House, 30 ft. high and about 200 ft. long, offering some resemblance to a pointed aisle .
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Rye
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Water flows into the Garnock close to the town . Captain Thomas Crawford of Jordanhill (1530-1603), the captor of
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Dumbarton Castle, spent the closing years of his
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life at Dalry, where a considerable estate had been granted to him .

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