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Burrard Inlet

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An inlet of river Fraser, in British Columbia, forming one of the best harbours on the Pacific coast.

Burnley

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A manufacturing town in Lancashire, 27 m. N. of Manchester; with cotton mills, foundries, breweries, etc.

Burra-Burra

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A copper-mine in S. Australia, about 103 m. NE. of Adelaide.

A Syrian seaport, 30 m. N. of Joppa, built in honour of Augustus Caesar by Herod the Great, now in ruins, though a place of note in the days of the Crusades. Also C. Philippi, at the source of the ...

Cagliari

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The cap of Sardinia, and the chief port, on the S. coast, was a colony of Jews from the time of Tiberius till 1492, whence they were expelled by the Spaniards; lies on the slopes of a hill, the ...

Cagots

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A race in the SW. of France of uncertain origin; treated as outcasts in the Middle Ages, owing, it has been supposed, to some taint of leprosy, from which, it is argued, they were by their manner of ...