OLERON, an arrondissement of the department of the
Lower Pyrenees, in France, being 972 square miles in extent. It comprehends eight cantons, which are divided into eighty-one communes, and it contains 71,400 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated between the two rivers Gaves d'Aspe and Gaves d'Ossau. It contains 900 houses, and 6400 inhabitants, who are employed in making thin woollen hosiery and leather. Long. 0. 17. W. Lat. 43. 10. N.