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Middletown (Borough in Dauphin co Pa)

a borough in Dauphin co., Pa.; on the Susquehanna river, and on the Philadelphia and Reading, and the Pennsylvania railroads; 10 miles S- E. of Harrisburg. It contains the Emaus Orphan Home, waterworks, a high school, National banks, daily and weekly newspapers, and an electric road connecting it with Harrisburg. It is located in an agricultural and lumbering region, and has extensive iron works, planing mills and sash factory, car works, tannery, a furniture factory, etc.

Pop. (1910) 5,374; (1920) 5,920.

MIDI (mē-de'), CANAL DU, or CA- NAL DU LANGUEDOC, a canal from Toulouse on the Garonne to Cette on the Mediterranean. It is 150 miles long and was built in 1681 at a cost of $3,500,000.

It connects the Atlantic with the Medi terranean Sea.