MONTELMART, an arrondissement of the depart-
ment of the Dome, in France, 510 square miles in extent. It comprehends five cantons, divided into sixty-eight communes, and contains 51,300 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated at the junction of the river Abon with the Roubion. It is regularly built, with wide streets, and contains an old castle, about 1000 houses, and 5900 inhabitants, the greater part of whom are Protestants, and have been so for a long period, as in this district the doctrine of John Calvin was first introduced, and thence rapidly spread in France. There are some extensive tanneries, and also several mills for spinning both silk and cotton; and the trade in wine, olives, oil, and raw silk, is extensive. Long. 4. 40. E. Lat. 44. 33. 38. N.