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ALET

Volume 1 · 68 words · 1797 Edition

a town of France, in Lower Languedoc, with a bishop's see. It is remarkable for its baths, and for the grains of gold and silver found in the stream which runs from the Pyrenean mountains, at the foot of which it stands. It is seated on the river Aude, 15 miles S. of Carcassone, and 37 N. W. of Narbonne. E. Long. 2. 5. N. Lat. 42. 59.