ORIENT, L', an arrondissement of the department of Morbihan, in France, which extends over 665 square miles. It comprehends eleven cantons, divided into fifty-two communes, and in 1836 it contained 133,307 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name. It is a fortified seaport, and a royal naval arsenal, standing at the mouth of the river Scorff, where it enters the bay of Port Louis. There are all those establishments for the building and equipping of ships of war. It is a well-built place, with long straight streets, and very fine quays. It has three churches, a naval hospital, 2000 houses, and 18,975 inhabitants. It is considerable also as a commercial port, is a dépôt for East India commodities, and has a great trade to the West Indies and the north of Europe. Long. 3. 30. W. Lat. 47. 38. 11. N.