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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 822 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KINGSTOWN  , a seaport of Co .

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Dublin, Ireland, in the south
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parliamentary division, at the south-eastern extremity of Dublin
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Bay, 6 m . S.E. from Dublin by the Dublin & South-Eastern railway . Pop. of urban
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district (1901), 17,377 . It is a large seaport and favourite watering-place, and possesses several
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fine streets, with electric trams, and terraces commanding picturesque sea views . The
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original name of Kingstown was Dunleary, which was exchanged for the
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present designation after the embarkation of George IV. at the
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port on his return from Ireland in 1821, an event which is also commemorated by a granite obelisk erected near the harbour . The
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town was a mere fishing
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village until the construction of an extensive harbour, begun in 1817 and finally completed in 1859 . The eastern pier has a length of 3500 ft. and the western of 4950 ft., the
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total
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area enclosed being about 250 acres, with a varying
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depth of from 15 to 27 ft . Kingstown is the station of the City of Dublin Steam Packet
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Company's
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mail steamers to Holyhead in connexion with the
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London & North-Western railway . It has large export and import trade both with
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Great Britain and
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foreign countries . The
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principal export is cattle, and the principal imports corn and provisions . Kingstown is the centre of an extensive sea-fishery; and there are three yacht clubs: the Royal Irish, Royal St George and Royal
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Alfred .

KING-TE CHEN, a town near Fu-liang Hien, in the province of Kiang-si,
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China, and the principal seat of the
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porcelain manufacture in that
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empire . Being situated on the south
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bank of the
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river Chang, it was in ancient times known as Chang-nan Chen, or " town on the south of the river Chang." It is unwalled, and straggles along the bank of the river . The streets are narrow, and crowded with a population which is reckoned at a million, the vast majority of whom find employment at the porcelainfactories . Since the Ch'in dynasty (557–589) this has been the great trade of the place, which was then called by its earlier name . In the reign of King-te (Chen-tsung) of the Sung dynasty, early in the firth century A.D., a manufactory was founded there for making vases and
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objects of
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art for the use of the emperor . Hence its adoption of its present title . Since the time of the Ming dynasty a magistrate has been specially appointed to superintend the factories and to despatch at regulated intervals the imperial porcelain to Peking . The town is situated on a vast plain surrounded by mountains, and boasts of three thousand porcelain furnaces . These constantly burning fires are the causes of frequent conflagrations, and at
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night give the city the appearance of a place on fire . The
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people are as a
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rule orderly, though they have on several occasions shown a hostile bearing towards foreign visitors . This is probably to be accounted for by a
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desire to keep their art as far as possible a mystery, which appears less unreasonable when it is remembered that the two kinds of earth of which the porcelain is made are not found at King-te Chen, but are brought from K'i-mun in the neighbouring province of Nganhui, and that there is therefore no reason why the trade should be necessarily maintained at that place . The two kinds of earth are known as pai-
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tun-tsze, which is a fine fusible
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quartz powder, and kao-lin, which is not fusible, and is said to give strength to the
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ware .

Both materials are prepared in the shape of bricks at K'i-mun, and are brought down the Chang to the seat of the manufacture .

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