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New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts

a city of 22,000 pop., on Buzzard's Bay. It is more extensively engaged in whale fishery than any other city in the United States. It is extensively engaged in manufactures and commerce, and is the richest city of its size in New England.

New York. 1869.

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