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Volume 6 · 67 words · 1842 Edition

an arrondissement of the department of Tarn, in France, extending over 775 square miles. It is divided into fourteen cantons and 106 communes, and contains 115,252 inhabitants. The capital, a city of the same name, is situated on the navigable river Agout. It contains 1681 houses, and 13,717 inhabitants, who are employed in woollen manufactures, tanneries, paper-mills, and other industrious pursuits. Long. 2.9.50. E. Lat. 43.37.10. N.