HAINICHEN

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HAINICHEN , a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Saxony, 0n the Kleine Striegis, 15 M. N.E. of Chemnitz, on the rail-way to Rosswein. Pop. (1905), 7752. It has two Evangelical churches, a park, and commercial and technical schools. Hainichen is a place of considerable industry. Its

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

manufacture is that of flannels, baize, and similar fabrics; indeed it may be called the centre of this industry in Germany. The

special

SPECIAL

whiteness and excellence of the

flannel

FLANNEL

made in Hainichen are due to the peculiar nature of the water used in the manufacture. There are also large dye-works and bleaching establishments. Hainichen is the birthplace of Gellert, to whose memory a bronze statue was erected in the market-place in 1865. The Gellert institution for the poor was erected in 1815.
HAI-PHONG, a seaport of Tongking, French Indo-China, on the Cua-Cam, a branch of the Song-koi (Red river)

delta

DELTA (from the shape of the Gr. letter A, delta, originally used of the mouth of the Nile)

. The population numbers between 21,000 and 22,000, of whom 12,500 are Annamese, 7500 Chinese (attracted by the

rice

trade of the port) and 1200 Europeans. It is situated about 20 M. from the Gulf of Tongking and 58 m. E. by S. of

Hanoi

HANOI

, with which it communicates by river and canal and by railway. It is the second commercial port of French Indo-China, is a naval station, and has government and private ship-building yards. The harbour is accessible at all times to vessels drawing 19 to 20 ft., but is obstructed by a bar. Hai-phong is the seat of a

resident

RESIDENT

who performs the functions of mayor, and the residency is the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

building of the town. A civil tribunal, a tribunal of commerce and a branch of the Bank of Indo-China are also among its institutions. It is the headquarters of the river steamboat service (Messageries fluviales) of Tongking, which plies as far as Lao-kay on the Song-koi, to the other chief towns of Tongking and northern Annam, and also to Hong-kong.

Cotton

COTTON
COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
EDWARD
- EDWARD
_
LYNCH
- LYNCH, PATRICIO (1825–1886)
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EDWARD
- EDWARD
LYNCH
- LYNCH, PATRICIO (1825–1886)
(1813–1866)
COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

-spinning and the manufacture of cement are carried on.

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