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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 742 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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THE NORE

NORE , a sandbank at the mouth of the

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RIVER

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THAMES

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England, marked by various buoys and by a lightship, with revolving

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LIGHT

light . This

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SHIP

ship lies 3 M. from the nearest point on the

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COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast, about the same distance from the

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Essex coast, and 471 M. below

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LONDON

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BRIDGE

Bridge . The first light was placed here as an experiment by Mr Hamblin, its patentee, in 1731 . In 1797 the neighbouring anchorage was the

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SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of a

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mutiny in the

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BRITISH

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FLEET

fleet then lying here, well known in

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HISTORY

history as the Mutiny of the

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NORE, THE

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