the meal of wheat-corn, finely ground and sifted.

Sr., an arrondissement of the department of Cantal, in France, extending over 660 square miles. It is divided into six cantons and eighty-two communes, and contains 65,079 inhabitants. The capital is a city built on a hill of basalt, 300 feet high, and only accessible on one side, at the foot of which flows the river Dauzan. The streets are paved, and the houses constructed of basalt, which gives the whole a gloomy appearance, and hence the neighbours have named it the black city. It contains 800 houses, and