an arrondissement in the department of La Manche, in France, extending over 357 square miles, and containing a population of 74,300 persons. It is divided into eight cantons, and these into seventy-three communes. The capital is the town of the same name, situated on the river Cance, between two steep rocks. The inhabitants amount to 2440 persons, who are employed in making earthenware, and the females in making thread lace. Long. 1. 7. W. Lat. 48. 57. N.