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Kingstown, town, St. Vincent and the GrenadinesKingstown, town (1989 est. pop. 19,300), capital of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, West Indies. The chief port of St. Vincent, Kingstown is an export center for the island's agricultural industry as well as a port of entry for tourists.Kingstown, borough, Republic of IrelandKingstown, borough, Republic of Ireland: see Dún Laoghaire Dún Laoghaire (d..... Click the link for more information. . KingstownCapital (pop., 1999 est.: 16,175), chief port of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, West Indies. Located on the southwestern end of Saint Vincent island, it overlooks Kingstown Harbour. Its sites of interest include the Botanic Gardens (founded 1763), the oldest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere; Capt. William Bligh made his 1787 voyage on the Bounty to obtain breadfruit trees from Tahiti for this garden. |
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| Fate was too strong for him; he had thought to master her inclination and had fled over the seas to that end; but she caught him, tied an apron round him, and snatching him from all other devices, made him devise cakes and patties in a kitchen at Kingstown. |
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