KINGSTON, a borough of Pennsyl vania, in Luzerne co. It is on the Sus quehanna river and on the Lackawanna and the Lehigh Valley railroads. It is chiefly a residential place but has some important industries, including an add ing machine factory, car and machine shops. and manufactories of hosiery. There are important coal mines in the vicinity. Pop. (1910) 6,449; (1920) 8,952.
important English river-port, a parliamentary and municipal borough and county of itself; in the East Riding of Yorkshire on the Humber; here 2 miles wide, and here joined by the Hull. Pop. (1917) 246, 557. The docks and basins, comprising an area of upward of 200 acres, have been constructed since 1774. Hull was one of the first ports in England to en gage in the whale-fishery, an enterprise which has been abandoned; but its fish eries for edible fish employ, in conjunc tion with those of Grimsby, large fleets of boats, attended by steam auxiliaries.
Hull is a principal steam-packet station, and ocean steamers ply regularly to many of the principal ports of Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Russia, Germany, and Scandinavia. Its home trade is also very extensive. It is the great outlet for the woolen and cotton goods of the mid land counties. It is the chief entrepot for German and Scandinavian oversea trade.
a town of England, County Surrey, on the right bank of the Thames, 12 miles from Hyde Park Corner. Its antiquity is proved by numerous Roman remains found ni its vicinity, and the Saxon kings were crowned here from Edward the Elder to Ethelred II. The stone on which the kings were crowned is preserved within an iron inclosure near the market-place. In the neighborhood are Bushy and Rich mond parks, and Hampton Court Pal ace. Pop. (1917) 40,000.