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MOUNT BARKER

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 939 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOUNT BARKER  , a
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town of Hindmarsh county, South
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Australia, at the
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foot of the mountain of the same name, 341 m. by
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rail E. of Adelaide . It has an extremely
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fine
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climate and is much frequented as a
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health resort in summer . It is the centre of a populous and fertile
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district producing quantities of fruit, wheat and
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dairy produce; important cattle sales are held weekly, and there are several
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engineering
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works,
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flour mills and tanneries in the town, which also is the seat of a wattle-bark industry . Pop. about 2000; but the inhabitants of the Mount Barker district number over 34,000 .

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