an arrondissement of the department of Cantal, in France, extending over 500 square miles. It comprehends six cantons, which are divided into sixty-three communes, and contains 62,400 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, which is built of a basalt on a basaltic rock, and contains 360 houses, with a population, including the parish, of 3450. Its chief trade consists in the sale of horses and cows reared in the neighbourhood, and which are of great repute. Long. 2. 14. E. Lat. 45. 10. N.