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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: North Carolina |
 | | It is bounded on the north by Virginia, east and south-east by the Atlantic Ocean, south by South Carolina and Georgia, and west and north-west by Tennessee. |
 | | The climate is generally equable, and North Carolina produces nearly all the crops grown in the United States with the exception of sub-tropical cane and fruits. |
 | | By Bull of Pius X, 8 June, 1900, the Counties of Gaston, Lincoln, Cleveland, Rutherford, Polk, Burke, McDowell, and Catawby were cut off from the vicariate to form the diocese of the Cathedral Abbey at Belmont, canonically erected by Mgr. |
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