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Auburn

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Auburn

City and administrative headquarters of Androscoggin County, southwest Maine; population (1990) 24,300. It is situated on the Androscoggin River, 3 km/2 mi west of Lewiston and 48 km/30 mi north of Portland. Industries include plastics, electronic goods, poultry, livestock, and bricks.

Auburn was first settled in 1797, and incorporated as a city in 1869. The city was supposedly named after the Auburn of Oliver Goldsmith's poem ‘The Deserted Village’ (1770).

Auburn

Village in County Westmeath, Republic of Ireland, 10 km/6 mi northeast of Athlone; population (2002) 530. It was the boyhood home of the poet Oliver Goldsmith, and is identified with the ‘Sweet Auburn’ described in his 1770 poem ‘The Deserted Village’.



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For a part of the distance between Auburn and Newcastle the road-- first on one side of a creek and then on the other--occupies the whole bottom of the ravine, being partly cut out of the steep hillside, and partly built up with bowlders removed from the creek- bed by the miners.
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They said he was Sensible, well-informed, and Agreable; we did not pretend to Judge of such trifles, but as we were convinced he had no soul, that he had never read the sorrows of Werter, and that his Hair bore not the least resemblance to auburn, we were certain that Janetta could feel no affection for him, or at least that she ought to feel none.
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