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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 147 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MEPPEL , a

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TOWN

town in the

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DRENTE

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Holland, 161 m. by

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RAIL

rail N. by E. of

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ZWOLLE

Zwolle . Pop . (1903), 10,470 . It is favourably situated at the confluence of a number of canals and

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rivers which communicate hence with the Zuider Zee by the Meppeler Diep, and

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rose rapidly into prominence in the 19th

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CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . The

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CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief business is in

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BUTTER (Lat. butyrum, Gr. 0obrvpov, apparently connected with $ous, cow, and rvpbs, cheese, but, according to the New English Dictionary, perhaps of Scythian origin)

butter, eggs,

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CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle and pigs, while

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BLEACHING

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DYEING (0. Eng. dedgian, dealt ; Mid. Eng. deyen)

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SHIPBUILDING

shipbuilding are also carried on here .

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