an arrondissement in the department of Finistère, in France, extending over 127 square miles, comprehending twelve cantons and eighty-five communes, with 136,149 inhabitants. It takes its denomination from the city of Brest, the most perfect and strongest naval station in the kingdom. The harbour consists of the road of Brest, with two deep indentations forming bays, into one of which the river Landeneau, and into the other the river Aulne, pour their streams. There is but one narrow cri-