TAUNTON

a city of Ma achusetts, in Bristol co., of which it is the county seat. It is on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, and on the Taunton river. Taunton is an important manufacturing city and has cotton mills, machine shops, printing and pre works, foundries, stove and furnace works, jewelry factory, locomotive works, etc. It has a public — library, a court-house, a United States government building and the State Ey for the Insane. Pop. 1920 wooded mountain range, Germany, extending 55 miles E. to W. between Rhine and Main on §8., and Lahn on N.; highest point, Gro er Feldberg, 2,887 ft.; the vine is cultivated on lower slopes; contains mnumerousmineral springs. town, health resort, N. Island, New Zealand; hot springs, geysers, and mud volcanoes in district. ment, Ru ia, bordering Biack Sea and Sea of Azoy, drained by Dnieper; mainly low steppes; agriculture and cattle breeding; fisheries; chief mineral, ods Pop. 1,876,200. Capital, Simferpol.