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ANTRIM — ANZIN

nseum. But it is the commercial importance of Antwerp of Belfast being now rated separately. By the Local &overnmen which above all else distinguishes the city. In this direc(Ireland) A.ct, 1898, the fiscal and administrative duties of the grand ury (and to a less extent) of other bodies were transferred to a tion the dock accommodation is still insufficient for the county council, urban and rural district councils1Xwere established vast and still growing trade, though considerable extenan and under that Act the county now comprises ?. J sions have been carried out, and the quays now stretch rural sanitary districts. The same Act abolished the separate along the Scheldt for 2£ miles. These are backed by large county of the town of Carrickfergus and constituted the city of warehouses, on the top of which a fine promenade has been Belfast a separate county. , ,, Agriculture.-The following tables show the acreage under crops, constructed, and behind these again open out thirteen including meadow and clover, and the amount ot live stock mlSbl, basins of various sizes. Sixty shipping lines have their 1891, 1895, and 1899. The figures tor 1899 are for the new ad- headquarters at Antwerp, and in conjunction with numerministrative county:— ous other lines which make it a port of call place Meadow Other Barley, the city in communication with every part of the Total. and Potatoes. Turnips. green Flax. Clover. Wheat. Oats. Beans, world. In 1880, 4495 vessels (2292 British) of Crops. etc. 3,063,825 tons entered the port; in 1899, 5613 248,330 87,347 17,662 3044 9,471 46,027 1881 4442 76,445 3892 231,022 (3013 British) of 6,872,848 tons. 90,163 15,010 1962 10,402 Imports 41,598 2380 67,540 1967 1891 98,022 236,281 40,251 11,419 1518 15,373 1895 741 67,358 1599 225,926 were valued at £49,700,000 in 1880, and 96,955 8,012 2223 12,148 37,498 1711 66,020 1359 1899 £65,027,600 in 1899; exports at £16,533,000 In 1899 the total value of the cereal and other crops was in 1880, and £32,615,000 in 1899. The principal imestimated by the Registrar-General at £1,768,536. The number of ports are now, in order of importance, grain of all kinds, acres under pasture in 1881 was 340,120 ; in 1891, 345,554 ; and m raw textile materials (wool, cotton, flax, &c.), mineral ores 1899, 358,080. and metals, provisions, rice, animal products, and guano; the principal exports are glass-ware, wrought metal, railHorses way carriages, cement, worsted and thread. Antwerp and Asses. ! Cattle. Sheep. Pigs. ! Goats. Mules. proper has nearly doubled its population within the last 56,849 | 46,821 576 138,519 122,423 twenty-five years. In 1875 there were 148,800 inhabit1881 29,743 65,835 676 157,550 1891 32,147 ants; in 1880, 169,100; in 1890, 224,000; and in 98,226 i 61,205 687 158,662 100,345 1895 34,376 I 60,860 752 156,338 1899 33,512 1899, 282,000. Including the two suburbs of Borgerhout and Berchem, the total population in 1899 was 338,800. The number of milch cows in 1891 was 64,365, and in 1899, The province of Antwerp (Fr. Anvers), Belgium, 64,875. It is estimated that the total value of cattle, sheep, and between the Netherlands on the N. and E., the province pigs in 1899 was £2,305,016. In' 1899 the number of holdings not exceeding 1 acre was 2678 ; of Limbourg on the E., Brabant on the &., and East between 1 and 5, 2000 ; between 5 and 15, 5346 ; between 15 and Flanders on the W., is formed of the ancient territories 30 5992 ; between 30 and 50, 3646 ; between 50 and 100, 2374 ; of the marquisate of Antwerp and the lordship of Malines between 100 and 200, 556 ; between 200 and 500, 155 ; and above 500, 46—total, 22,793. The total number of loans issued (the and of a part of the ancient duchy of Brabant. The number of tenants being the same as the number of loans) under the land spreads out fiat and low. In large part Antwerp Land Purchase Acts, 1885, 1891, 1896, up to 31st March 1900, was belongs to the sandy region known as the Campine. A 3521, amounting to £1,134,873. The number of loans sanctioned canal from Antwerp to Maastricht joins the basin of the for agricultural improvements under sect. 31 of the Land Act, 1881, between 1882 and 1900 was 132, and the amount issued was Scheldt to that of the Meuse. Besides its important £11,415. The total amount issued for all classes of works under commercial centre of Antwerp, the province carries on the Land Improvement Acts from the commencement oi operations the industries of shipbuilding, paper-making, woollen in 1847 to 31st March 1900 was £138,203. Minerals.—The following were the outputs of the various mines textiles, and cement. It is divided into the three adminisin 1899,—coal, 6111 tons, iron ore, 102,262 tons, value £16,015 ; trative arrondissements of Antwerp, Malines, and Turn rock salt, 47,055 tons, value £13,319; and alum clay, 8099 tons, hout. The province covers 1093 square miles, with a value £1871. The output of iron ore has been almost continually population in 1899 of 825,000 (or 753'7 to a square increasing, and the production of alumina from alum clay forms a mile) against 531,750 in 1875. The arrondissement of new branch of industry. The alumina is prepared at works near Antwerp had a population in 1899 of 513,oOO, or 1367 5 Larne ; 1500 tons, value £28,000, having been extracted in 1899. Fisheries.—In 1899, 231 vessels, employing 476 hands, were per square mile. registered in the deep sea and coast fishing districts of Ballycastle and See Mertens et Tores. Geschiedenis van Antwerpen.—Evg. Carrickfergus. 212 persons were employed in the salmon fishing Gens. Histoire de la ville d'Anvers. —GIsnard. Anvers d travers district of Ballycastle in the same year. Us dges.—Rapport de la Chambre de Commerce d’Anvers, 1898 ; and Annuaire statistique dc la Belgique, 1899. (j. du F.) Antrim, a town in the above county, on the Sixmile Water, 13 miles N.W. of Belfast by rail, on the Great An U rad ha pur a., the chief town in the northNorthern Railway. It is governed by town commissioners, central province of Ceylon, and the ancient capital of the but, under the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, can island for twelve centuries from 437 B.c. It is an extensive apply to be constituted an urban sanitary district. Area, “buried city,” now being gradually excavated under an 198 acres. Population (1891), 1385; (1901), 1825* archaeological survey by the government of Ceylon. Its dagabas and other Buddhist ruins excite much interest. Antwerp (French Anvers), a city, port, and strong- It °can be visited by rail and coach in two days from hold of Belgium, capital of the province of the same name, Colombo; but the railway is about to be extended all on the right bank of the Scheldt, about 50 miles from the the way. Population—town, 3000; province, 79,022. sea and 25 N. of Brussels by rail. The wall which, since the Anzin, a town of France, department of Nord, in old fortifications were demolished in 1860, has shut in th<3 city wherever unprotected by the river, encloses the suburbs the arrondissement of Valenciennes, 1 Jr miles N.W. of that of Borgerhout and Berchem, and measures over 8Jr miles; town, of which it is a suburb, on the railway from Somain seventeen gates give entrance to the city, and twelve forts to Peruwelz. Its metallurgical industries are very extenserve for the defence. The city has spread rapidly within sive, and include several large establishments engaged in recent years; a new quarter has sprung up all along the the manufacture of steam engines, machinery, chain-cables, line of the old fortifications, containing many handsome and a great variety of heavy iron goods. The number erections such as the new Art Gallery, the Law Courts, of puddling furnaces in operation in Anzin and Denain the National Bank, the National Theatre, and the Athe- in 1899 was 25. The output of coal in the same year