an arrondissement of the department of the Lozère, in France, 728 square miles in extent. It is divided into ten cantons and seventy-six communes, and contains 57,100 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name situated in a beautiful valley on the river Coulanges; it is well built, and contains 660 houses, with 3750 inhabitants, whose chief occupation is making hats, serges, and other inferior kinds of woollen goods. Long. 3. 14. E. Lat. 44. 25. N.