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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Tipton

Britannica 11th

TIPTON, an urban district of Staffordshire, England, in the parliamentary borough of Wednesbury, adjacent to Dudley (i£ m. S.), served by the London & North Western and Great Western railways. Pop. (1901), 30,543. Its streets are interspersed with coal-mines a ...

Vol. 26, pp. 1005-1005 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

Triton

Britannica 11th

TRITON, in Greek mythology, son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, the personification of the roaring waters. According to Hesiod (Theog. 930), he dwelt with his parents in a golden palace in the depths of the sea. The story of the Argonauts places his home on the co

Vol. 27, pp. 296-296 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 37.5