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BOURG

Volume 4 · 99 words · 1823 Edition

the capital of the island of Cayenne, a French colony on the coast of Guiana, in South America, in W. Long. 52. o. N. Lat. 5. o.

BOURG-en-Bresse, a town in France, and capital of Bresse, in the province of Burgundy. It is seated on the river Ressouze, almost in the centre of Bresse, in E. Long. 4. 19. N. Lat. 46. 13.

BOURG-sur-Mer, a sea-port town of France in Guienne, and in the Bourdelois, with a tolerable good harbour: seated at the confluence of the rivers Dordogne and Garonne, in W. Long. 3. 35. N. Lat. 45. o.