a circle in the department of Coblenz, and the Prussian province of the Lower Rhine. It extends over 143 square miles, or 91,520 acres; and has 32,820 inhabitants, viz. 31,637 Catholics, 651 Protestants, 512 Jews, in three cities, three market towns, and 74 villages. The Rhine washes its eastern border, and receives the water of the Ahr, which issues out of a fertile valley, near Sinzig, whence some good wine from the sides of the hills is produced. The rest of the district is poor in agriculture, and indifferently furnished with cattle, game, fish, wood, and stone. The capital is a small city of the same name. It is on the banks of the Ahr, and contains 438 houses, and 2880 inhabitants, chiefly tanners, curriers, and makers of wine.