is a city of France in Lower Languedoc, with an archbishop's see, and is particularly famous for its honey. It is seated on a canal cut from the river Aude, which being but three miles from the sea, vessels come up laden with merchandise, which renders it a place of some trade. But though it pretends to the most remote antiquity under the Celtic kings, in ages anterior even to the Roman conquests, which under these latter masters gave its name to all the Gallia Narbonensis, and was a colony of the first consideration, it is now dwindled to a wretched solitary town, containing scarce 8000 inhabitants, of whom three-fourths are priests and women. The streets and buildings are mean and ruinous; it has indeed a communica-