Brunswick

Brunswick, (1) a port of entry and capital of Glynn county, Georgia, on St Simon Sound, an inlet of the Atlantic, 186 miles SE. of Macon by rail. It has connection by steamer with Savannah and New York, and exports cotton and timber; naval stores are manufactured. Pop. (1890) 8459.—(2) A town of Cumberland county, Maine, 29 miles NE. of Portland by rail, is at the head of navigation on the Androscoggin River, whose falls or rapids supply water-power for cotton, paper, and other mills. It is the seat of Bowdoin College (1794), a Congregational institution of high standing, at which Nathaniel Hawthorne and Longfellow graduated; it has 15 resident professors and about 250 students, and the Maine Medical School is affiliated to it. Pop. of township (1880) 5384; (1890) 6012.