Forst, an industrial town of Prussia, 80 miles SE. of Berlin by rail, had in 1895 a population of 25,681, mostly engaged in manufacturing buckskins, in cloth manufactures, and in tanneries. Forst has also a trade in cattle.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 739
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