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AUGE

Volume 2 · 93 words · 1797 Edition

a territory of Normandy in France, which gives title to a vicount. It extends from Falaise and Argenton as far as the sea, between the rivers Dives, Vie, and Touques. The arable land is stiff, and produces but little good corn; but they sow fainfoin; which succeeds so well that they have five good crops successively: they likewise sow flax and hemp; and have a vast quantity of apples, with which they make cider. Horses are bred here in great numbers; and the inhabitants fatten the oxen which come from Poictou and Brittany.