an arrondissement in the department of Lot and Garonne, containing 9 cantons, 72 communes, and 85,149 inhabitants. The chief town of the same name is situate on the right bank of the Garonne, about 75 miles south-east of Bordeaux. It has a sail-cloth manufactory, a college, several literary institutions, and is the seat of a bishop and a royal court of justice. Here is a fine bridge of 11 arches over the Garonne. In this neighbourhood some meteoric stones fell in July 1790. In 1846 the population was 14,091.