New Brunswick

New Brunswick, capital of Middlesex county, New Jersey, is at the head of navigation on the Raritan River, 31 miles by rail SW. of New York, and is the terminus of the Delaware and Raritan Canal. It contains a Roman Catholic cathedral, and nearly a score of other churches, and is the seat of Rutgers College (1771), connected with which is the theological seminary of the Dutch Reformed Church, as well as an observatory and a state agricultural college and model farm. New Brunswick is noted for its great india-rubber factories, and has also iron and brass foundries, and manufactories of hosiery, lamps, needles, paperhangings, &c. Pop. (1890) 18,603.