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EAGLEHAWK

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 791 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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EAGLEHAWK , a

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BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

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BENDIGO (formerly SANDHURST)

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COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

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AUSTRALIA

Australia, 105 M. by

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RAIL

rail N.N.W. of

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Melbourne and 4 M. from Bendigo, with which it is connected by

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TRAMWAY

tramway . Pop . (1901) 8130 . It stands on the Bendigo

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gold-bearing

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REEF (1)

reef, and its mines are important .

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