a town of Ireland, county of Louth, on the river Dee, whence its ancient name of Atherdee, "Town on the Dee." It was formerly a place of considerable importance, but now consists chiefly of miserable cabins. It has two old ARDENNE, a province of Persia, which forms the eastern division of Kurdistan. Its length is 200 miles, and its breadth about 160. It is divided from the plain of Hamadan by a small range of hills, and its western boundary is 100 miles beyond Senna, the capital, which is situated in Long. 40° E. and Lat. 35° 12' N., 60 miles from Hamadan. From the Sharook, which separates the province from Azerbaijan, to Senna, the country presents either a succession of hills clustered and heaped together, or great table-lands covered with the flocks and tents of wandering shepherds, who pass the summer here, and migrate in the winter to the vicinity of Baghdad. The soil in the valleys or glens, which are narrow strips at the foot of the mountains, is fertile, and yields abundance of wheat and barley. The oil plant, Sesamum orientale, is everywhere cultivated, and also tobacco, though in small quantities. The deep valley in which the capital is situated is well cultivated, and interspersed with orchards of fruit-trees. The mountains to the west are covered with forests of oak, which produce fine timber, and abundance of gall-nuts, which are exported to India, while the oak is floated down the Tigris into the Tigris. The inhabitants, and other pastoral and rude tribes, make little use of the natural advantages of the country, being addicted to war, cruelty, and rapine. There is another tribe of shepherds named Geshkehe, who are most expert and daring robbers. These tribes are under the government of a powerful chief, who pays an annual tribute to Persia, but is in all other respects independent. He rules over his vassals with the most absolute power, but is said to govern rather like a patriarch than a tyrant.—Kinner.