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Volume 2 · 76 words · 1860 Edition

a town of France, in the department of the Aude and district of Limoux, at the foot of the Pyrenees. It is remarkable for its baths, and for the grains of gold and silver found in the stream which runs from the Pyrenean mountains, at the foot of which it stands. It is seated on the river Aude, 15 miles south of Carcassone, and 37 south-west of Narbonne. Long. 2. 15. E. Lat. 42. 59. N.