NOND, Côtes du, a department of France, formed out of a part of the ancient province of Bretagne, and extending in north latitude from 48. 16. to 48. 56. and in west longitude from 2. 12. to 3. 49. It is bounded on the north by the sea, on the east by the department of Ille Vilaine, on the south by that of Morbihan, and on the west by Finisterre. It is 3022 square miles, or 736,720 hectares, in extent, and contains five arrondissements, forty-seven cantons, and 376 communes, with a population of 540,000 persons. It is a level plain, interspersed with a few gentle elevations. The shore is covered with rocks and small islands, and encircled by a belt of sandy soil, but intermixed with a few rich meadows near the rivers. The streams are all of but short course, and only navigable at the time of high tides. The climate is temperate, but moist and changeable. Agriculture is in a backward state, as is the civilization of the inhabitants, who speak for the most part a kind of Welsh, and live mostly in small villages or little farms; but, by subsisting chiefly on bread made of oats or buck-wheat, they furnish grain sufficient for their own consumption, and produce, besides, hemp and flax, which are converted into wearing apparel in their own houses, or made into sail-cloth and other articles. The fisheries give employment to some of the inhabitants; and iron mines, of which there are a few, furnish occupation to others. Much honey and bees' wax is obtained from the department. It sends four deputies to the legislative chamber.