a circle in the Prussian government of Munster, and province of the Rhine. It is on the frontiers of the kingdom of the Netherlands, and extends over 307 square miles, or 196,480 acres. It contains four small cities, nine villages, and forty-four hamlets, with 5703 houses and 36,170 inhabitants. It is an undulating but healthy and moorish district, yielding chiefly buck-wheat and flax. Some little iron, much wood; and some coarse wool, are the chief productions. The capital, of the same name, situated on the river Aa, contains 450 houses and 2437 inhabitants. The whole district belonged formerly to the family of Solm-Solm, now mediatised.