a bailiwick in the circle of Leipzig, in the kingdom of Saxony, containing five cities, ninety-three villages, and 18,460 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is a city situated on the Mulda, containing five churches, 560 houses, and 3500 inhabitants. Several manufactures are carried on, for cloth, flannels, hosiery, cotton articles, linen; surgical, mathematical, and musical instruments; and especially tobacco-pipes, of which some millions are annually made.