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LAIGLE

Volume 13 · 101 words · 1860 Edition

or L'AGLE (the ancient Aquila), a town in France, department Orne, is situated on the sloping sides of two hills, on the River Rille, 80 miles W.S.W. from Paris. Its chief manufactures are cutlery, hardware, leather, paper, cotton, and linen. It has a large trade in corn, wood, and cider, together with needles and pins. The town is well built, but contains few buildings worthy of note, except the large church of St Martin's, and an old chateau built of brick, and surrounded by tall and beautiful lime trees. In the vicinity is the mineral well of St Santin. Pop. 5678.