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 DUNEDIN — DUNKIRK 549 tons entered the port, and 774 vessels of 341,192 tons Fifeshire, Scotland, 54 miles north of the Forth Bridge by cleared; in 1898, 1497 vessels of 661,264 tons entered, rail. The new corporation buildings were completed in and 1417 of 729,067 tons cleared. The registered shipping 1879 and cost £25,000; other erections have been a at the port at the close of 1898 was 140 vessels of 109 073 tons. In 1889, 14 vessels of 18,311 tons were launched Public hall, a Carnegie free library, and new buildings for Population of the royal and police from the shipbuilding yards; and in 1899, 19 vessels of the high school. burgh (1881), 19,915; (1901), 25,250. 17,908 tons. Recent erections are the Victoria Art Galleries, the Victoria Hospital for Incurables, the Maternity non, an inland town and urban sanitary Hospital and Nurses’ Home, infectious diseases hospital, district in the county of Tyrone, Ireland, 94| miles northsmall-pox hospital, royal lunatic asylum, and bronze north-west of Dublin by rail. It ceased to be a parstatues of Queen Victoria (1899) and Burns (1880). Lochee liamentary borough in 1885. Population (1881) 4084 • Park (25 acres) and Fairmuir (12 acres) were presented to (1901), 3693.

h , the town in 1883 and 1890. Dundee Law has been Dungarpur, a native state of India, in the acquired by the corporation, and the Barrack Park was Rajputana Agency, in the extreme south of Rajputana A bought in 1893 for £40,000. The esplanade on the river large portion is hilly, and inhabited by Bhils. Its area is frontage was extended in 1893 to a total length of 24 1440 square miles. The population in 1881 was 86 429 • miles, and about 130 acres of additional recreation ground in 1891 it was 165,400, including 66,952 Bhils, who were are about to be reclaimed from the river, as a result not enumerated in 1881, giving an average density of 115 of which the esplanade will be extended another half persons per square mile. In 1901 the total population mile. A large part of the town has been reconstructed of was 100,018, showing an apparent decrease of 40 per late years, under an Improvement Act, at a total cost of cent due to the famine of 1899-1900. The revenue in about half a million sterling; and another scheme of 1896-97 was Rs.2,21,297, and the tribute was Rs.34,147. reconstruction is in progress, which will cost a further An annual fair is held at Baneswar, where goods are sold sum of £350,000. There are 18 Established churches, to the value of Rs.2,50,000, chiefly cloth. Kherwara is 32 United Free, 8 Congregational, 5 Scottish Epis- the headquarters of the Meywar Bhil corps. copal, 5 Roman Catholic, 2 Wesleyan, and 6 belonging Dungarvan, a maritime town and urban sanitary to other denominations. Dundee University College was founded in 1881 by Dr and Miss Baxter, and has now district m the county of Waterford, Ireland, 125 miles endowments amounting to £224,027. The college has, south-west of Dublin by rail. It ceased to be a parliamentafter much litigation, been incorporated with the Univer- ary borough m 1885. The exports are chiefly agricultural sity of St Andrews, and has a staff of principal, 13 profes- Population (1881), 6306; (1901), 4850. sors, and numerous lecturers in arts, science, medicine, and Dunkirk, or Dunkerque, a seaport and chief law. . Evening classes form an important part of the town of arrondissement, department of Nord, France 53 teaching scheme, and a training college for teachers has miles north-west of Lille by rail. It has a chamber of just been inaugurated. There are also a technical insti- commerce, a library, two hospitals, a college, and schools of tute, two endowed high schools—one for boys and the other design, painting, architecture, and music. An important for girls—and 35 elementary schools. The two academies wool depot and market has been established here under and 21 of the elementary schools are managed by the the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce (1900). The School Board, and have an average attendance of 17,553; spinning of flax, hemp, and jute, and the manufacture of while the other 14 schools, of which 6 are Roman Catholic artificial manures,, soap, and esparto bathing shoes, have and 4 Episcopal, have an average attendance of 5176. On become important industries. A shipbuilding yard covering board a training-ship, which lies in the Tay, there are about an area of 27 acres and fitted with the newest appliances 400 boys, one-fourth of whom belong to Dundee. Valuation has been recently established. The first ships were laid in 1889—90, £640,225; 1899—1900, £829,388. Population down m 1901. Direct steamship service has been arranged with Cochin China and with South America (La Plata (1881), 140,794; (1891), 154,118; (1901), 160,871. Authorities.—David Barrie. The City of Dundee Illus- river). The number of vessels entered and cleared in trated. Dundee, 1890.—J. M. Beatts. The Municipal History 1900 was respectively 2698, tonnage 1,613,774, and of Dundee. Dundee, 1878.—Charles S. Lawson. Guide-Book to 91Dwnrfee.—Alexander Maxwell. Old Dundee. Dundee, 2622, tonnage 1,613,188 ; of which British vessels entered U -—AZem. History of Old Dundee. Dundee, IBM.—Dundee numbered 1107 of 600,672 tons, and cleared 1099 of Year-Book, 1878-99.—A. C. Lamb. Dundee: its Quaint and 687,412 tons. Large quantities of produce are imHistoric Buildings. Dundee, 1895.—A. H. Millar. Boll of ported from Australia, India, and North and South Bminent Burgesses of Dundee. Dundee, 1887. (w. Wa.) America. The principal imports in 1900 were grain, coal Dunedin, the third largest city of New Zealand, iron ore, nitrate of soda, wool, oil-seeds, wood, raw fibres with (1901) 53,294 inhabitants, not including 2205 petroleum, pitch, metals; and the principal exports sugar persons in the borough of Port Chalmers, eight miles coal, iron and steel, phosphates, forage, bricks, cement! distant, on the same harbour. The former prosperity cod flsher T ^1436 /oC,and U employing 83 and vessels of Dunedin has' lately revived, owing in part to gold- by men, yielded 4569 tons of fish 280 manned tons of dredging in the Otago rivers. The University College oil. The harbour accommodation has been greatly inincludes a School of Medicine and Medical Museum, and creased since 1875, and now comprises seven basins, while a School of Mines. The University library contains 5000 still further extensions are projected. The entrance canal works of reference, well selected. The primary and from the sea to the outer harbour has a length of 3113 secondary schools of the town are excellent. Four hundred feet, width between jetties 229 feet (to be increased to and two. pupils attend the School of Art, and there is a 425 feet), depth ordinary spring tide 27 feet. The total small training college for state teachers. Dunedin is well ength of quayage is nearly 5 miles. A canal connects built and well administered. The total import and export the docks with the inland canals. Three lighthouses now trade was £2,721,577 in 1893 ; £4,423,442 in 1899; mark the approach to the port, of which one at an altitude and £3,636,248 in 1900. The headquarters of the Union of 193 feet is visible 42 miles. Population (1881), 34,769 : Steamship Company of New Zealand are in Dunedin. (1901), 40,329. ' ’ ' Dunferml i ne, a royal, parliamentary (Stirling Dunkirk, a city of Chautauqua county, New York, and Dunfermline group), and police burgh and city of U.S.A., in 42° 29' N. lat. and 79° 20' W. long., on the