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Shields (SOUTH a municipal)

SOUTH, a municipal and parliamentary borough of England, in the county of Durham, near the mouth of the Tyne, opposite to North Shields, in Northumberland (pop. about 10,000), and communicating with it by steam ferry.

The industries comprise glass, earthenware, alkali and chemicals , cordage, steam engine boilers, and chain cables and an- . The ports of North Shields and South Shields, formed by an expansion of the river into a wide bay, have been greatly improved and and the construction of piers, and are capable of contain- SHIITES ing vessels of any size at their quays.

Pop. (1919) Pop. (1919) 116,152. of Tibet; on the Sanpo or Brahmaputra