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 | | The public buildings of interest are the Groote or Janskerk, the old ROman Catholic thurch, the synagogue, the town-hall, the exchange, the concerthail arid a ruined castle. |
 | | Schiedam is famous as the seat of a great gin manufacture, which, carried on in more than three hundred distilleries, gives employment besides to malt-factories, cooperages and cork-cutting establishments, and supplies grain refuse enough to feed about 30,000 pigs, as well as sufficient yeast to form an important article of export. |
 | | Other industries include shipbuilding, glass-blowing and the manufacture of stearine candles. |
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