an arrondissement of the department of the Lot and Garonne, in France, 443 square miles in extent. It contains seven cantons, divided into ninety-two communes, and inhabited by 57,500 persons. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on a fruitful plain, through which the river Blaise runs. In a castle now in ruins the kings of Navarre held their court, and Henry IV. of France passed his youth in it. It contains 860 houses, with 8590 inhabitants, who make cotton goods, druggets, and serges, leather and glass, and domestic articles of copper, ware; and carry on considerable trade in corn, wine, and other productions of the soil. Long. 0. 13. E. Lat. 44. 10. N.