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Portsmouth (City port of entry)

a city, port of entry, and county-seat of Rockingham co., Rockingham co. , N. H., on the Piscataqua river, and the Boston and Maine railroad; 40 miles E. of Concord. The harbor is deep and commodious, and much used as a haven of refuge. Here are a United States life-saving station, a signal -service station, custom house, Children's Home, Woman's Asylum, etc. It has manufactories of cotton fabrics, hosiery, ale and beer, boots and shoes, carriages , copper and brass foundry products , leather, soap, gloves, etc. Here the "Peace of and Japanese representatives, at the suggestion of President Roosevelt, met in conference and signed a treaty of peace Russo -Japanese in 1905, concluding the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). Pop. (1910) 11,- ).

Pop. (1910) 11,- 269; (1920) 13,569.

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