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TROON , a See also:

POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

police See also:

burgh, seaport and watering-See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of See also:

AYRSHIRE

Ayrshire, See also:

Scotland. Pop. (1901), 4764. It is situated 6 m. N. by W. of See also:

AYR

Ayr, and 35 M. S.W. of See also:

GLASGOW

Glasgow by the Glasgow & See also:

South-Western railway. It has the best natural See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour in the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, with over a mile of quayae, a See also:

BREAKWATER

breakwater 3000 ft. See also:

long, and two graving docks. See also:

SHIPBUILDING

Shipbuilding is the leading See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry, and there is a rope and See also:

SAIL

sail factory. The See also:

TOWN

town contains a public See also:

hall and library and See also:

READING

reading-See also:

ROOM

room. The See also:

MUNICIPALITY

municipality controls the waterworks and gasworks. Fullarton See also:

House, 1 m. south-See also:

east, is a seat of the See also:

DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

Portland; and at Auchans, about 3 M. See also:

west, Susannah, countess of See also:

EGLINTON, EARLS OF

Eglinton, in 1773 entertained Dr See also:

Johnson. Adjoining this See also:

ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate stands the ruined See also:

castle of the Dundonalds.

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