an arrondissement of the department of the Seine and Oise, in France, extending over 275 square miles. It is divided into five cantons, and these into eighty-four communes, containing 67,500 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is situated between two woods, has a royal palace and park, and contains 2800 inhabitants. There is here a large farm celebrated for breeding sheep with the finest wool.

RAMAZZINI, BERNARDIN, an Italian physician, born at Carpi, near Modena, in 1633. He was professor of physic in the university of Modena during eighteen years; in 1700 he accepted an invitation from Padua, where he was made rector of the college; and in 1714 he died. His works were collected and published in London in 1716; and of these, his treatise De Morbis Artificum, or on the maladies peculiar to artificers, will always be esteemed curious and useful.