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Ostend

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A favourite watering-place on the SW. coast of Belgium, 65 m. due W. of Antwerp; attracts 20,000 visitors every summer; it is an important seaport, having daily mail communication with Dover, and it manufactures linen and sail-cloth; fishing is the chief industry; it is famed for oysters, which are brought over from England and fattened for export.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Ostend'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​o/ostend.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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