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Poplin

a silk and worsted stuff, Irish poplins have a silk warp and Originally an allsilk French goods. worsted weft, and in the common grades cotton or flax is mixed with the silk. tain"), a volcano about 40 miles S. E. of the City of Mexico . It rises in the form above the sea-level. No eruption has been of a cone to the height of 17,784 feet recorded since 1540 ; it still smokes, however. around its crater (5,165 feet in diameter, It is often ever. It is often scaled and in and POPOCATEPETL ("smoking moun- POPPY POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY and nearly 1,000 deep) a good deal of might get in by them, but under the sulphur is obtained.

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