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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 628 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FOOTSCRAY , a

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CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of

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BOURKE

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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, on the Saltwater

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RIVER

river, 4 M . W. of and suburban to

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Melbourne . Pop . (1901) 18,301 . The city has large bluestone quarries from which most of the

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BUILDING

building stones in Melbourne and the

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NEIGHBOUR (O. Eng. neahgebiir, from Walt, " nigh," " near ")

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hood is obtained; it is also an important manufacturing centre, with numerous

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SUGAR

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mills, jute factories,

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SOAP

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WORKS

works, woollen-mills, foundries, chemical works and many other

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INDUSTRIES

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FOOT

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STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors

STALL, a word supposed to be a literal

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TRANSLATION

translation of piedestal, or

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PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedestallo, foot of a stall)

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LOWER

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PART

part of a

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PIER (older forms per or Pere, from Med. Lat. pera; the word for piers out of water. For river piers, where a firm, watertight is of obscure origin, and the connexion with Fr. Pierre, Lat. stratum is found at a moderate depth below the river-bed, the pctr

pier in

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ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture (see

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BASE

BASE) .

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