FLOUR, St, an arrondissement of the department of
Cantal, in France, extending over 660 square miles. It is
divided into six cantons and eighty-two communes, and
contains 65,079 inhabitants. The capital is a city built on a
hill of basalt, 300 feet high, and only accessible on one side,
at the foot of which flows the river Dauzan. The streets
are paved, and the houses constructed of basalt, which gives
the whole a gloomy appearance, and hence the neighbours
have named it the black city. It contains 800 houses, and
5687 inhabitants, who are occupied in manufactures of glass, leather, copper, and iron goods, and archil. Long. 3. 0. 19. E. Lat. 45. 1. 58. N.