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 | | It was in the waters of the Dnieper opposite the town that Prince Vladimir, the first saint of the Russian church, caused his people to be baptized (988), and Kiev became the seat of the first Christian church, of the first Christian school, and of the first library in Russia. |
 | | In a niche in the town steeple (erected in I755) is the statue of the famouf piper, who died about the beginning of the 17th century and i~ commemorated in the elegy on The Life and Death of Habbk Simson, Piper of Kilbarchan by Robert Sempill of Beltreet (15951665). |
 | | The chief industries are manufactures of liner (introduced in 1739 and dating the rise of the prosperity of tht town), cotton, silks and Paisley shawls, and calico-printing, besides quarries, coal and iron mines in the neighborhood. |
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