in Jewish antiquity. See CORUS.

**ST OMER'S**, a strong, fortified, large town of France, in the department of the Straits of Calais, with a castle and a bishop's see, and containing 20,109 inhabitants in 1800. It is a fortress of considerable importance, surrounded on one side with a large morass; and about it there are many sluices, which serve to carry the water off when it is overflowed. In the midst of the morass there is a sort of floating islands covered with verdure and trees. The cathedral is a handsome structure; and there are other fine buildings, with a rich Benedictine abbey. The French became masters of this place in 1679. It is seated on the river Aa, and on the side of a hill, eight miles north-west of Aire, and 135 north of Paris. E. Long. 2. 20. N. Lat. 54. 45.