Identifier: guidetobelfastco00belf (find matches)
Title: A guide to Belfast and the counties of Down & Antrim
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Belfast Naturalists' Field Club
Subjects: Natural history -- Northern Ireland Antrim Natural history -- Northern Ireland Down Belfast (Northern Ireland)
Publisher: Belfast : M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nsiderable scale at Carrickfergus, wherethere are extensive deposits. The building trade is also ofimportance, with its allied businesses of brick-making andthe importing and working of timber of all descriptions, bothof which are the means of employing a great number ofmen. Curing provisions has long been a principal industry,and Belfast hams and sides of bacon are well known. Ice-curing and cold storage are engaged in Vjy several firmsduring the summer. An extensive trade is done in grain,both home and foreign, in the milling of flour andbarley, and in the manufacture of starch. Hats, boots andshoes, nails, matches, carriages, bottles, roofing and otherfelts, artificial manures, leather, beer, and furniture of allkinds, ornamental ironwork, stoves, stable fittings, and otherspecialities in iron, are among the minor manufactures, andthe list is by no means exhausted. Enough, however, hasbeen said to give a general idea of the extent and varietyof the commerce of our northern capital.
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PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THEBELFAST DISTRICT. By J. St. J. Phillips. HE term Belfast District has been taken asembracing the counties of Antrim and Down.It is included between the parallels of 54° 5 and55° 15N., and the meridians of 5° 25and 6° 45W.The county of Antrim contains an area ofi, 190 squaremiles ; the county of Down containing 956 square miles.Our district may also be referred to as the N.E. districtof Ireland. It is bounded on the north by the Atlantic,and on the east by that portion of the Irish Sea knownas the North Channel. Two watercourses also form thealmost continuous boundaries on the west—the county ofAntrim being separated from the county of Derry on thewest by the Lower Bann river, from the counties of Tyroneand Armagh by Lough Neagh. The county of Downis separated from the counties of Armagh and Louth bythe Newry canal and Carlingford Lough. The counties of Antrim and Down are separated fromeach other by the Lagan river and Belfast Lough. Configuration. —The

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