KINGSTON, Ireland, a seaport and water ing place on Dublin Bay, a short distance southeast of Dublin. Its present name was given it in 1821 on a visit of George IV after whom it was renamed, its old name being Dun leary. Owing to the fact that it has a fine har bor it has long been a place of extensive ship ping, among the many imports being coal, iron, lumber, timber and other raw building mate rial; while its exports consist of the products of an extensive range of local territory from which come cattle, grain, stone and lead ore. Pop. 20,000.
England, a town near Richmond, on the Thames and in Surrey. The derivation of the name is uncer tain, but it is said to have had its origin in an ancient stone in the market place of the city upon which were engraved the names of sev eral early kings of England of Saxon line. This stone, tradition says, was, like the famous stone of the Scottish kings, a sacred object upon which the kings were crowned; and it was intimately connected with the traditional life of the Saxon sovereigns and people and with their mythology and religio-trtal cere according to certain archmologists who have given it close attention and study. This
stone was in the church of Saint Mary until 1779. The town itself is a place of consider able commercial and industrial importance; and has grown outside its original boundaries since 1880. It possesses an extensive market and mills and factories of several kinds; and it has long been a place of summer residence for the people of London. As will be gathered from the fact that there were crowned there several of the Saxon sovereigns, it was a place of importance at an early date in the history of England, and it never altogether lost its air of prosperity. On account of its social rela tions it fipires frequently in English literature. Pop. 40,000.