FRANCE 
Annecy, . in the department of Mont Blanc, four leagues 
long ; 3, the lake of Bouget, in the fame depa artment ; and, 
Ay the lake of Allegre, at the top of a mountain in the de- 
a the Puy de Déme. 
Of the mountains of Fra the moft remarkable are 
that onan of the Alps which crofles the three departments of 
Alps, after- 
kingdom of Italy and Switzerland. Some of the fummits 
of the Alps are hg vie _ ) or fear o. above 
the level of the fea vated pane he Alps be- 
ne Jura, Upper Sadne, D 
Vofges, Lower Rhine, Meurthe, Mofelle, 
Mont Tonnerre. A third branch rifes in the department of 
‘the Dréme, croffes the departments of the Ardéche, Loire, 
- Rhone, Sadne and Loire, and Cote @’Oras far as Dijon. It 
‘has: alfo aa ih epee in the departments the 
ome, oie SS. to the fouth-weit 
d, 
far as the P yrenees, eee a Sqmeurl boundary between 
Franceand Spain. This chain of the Pyrenees ftretches to 
‘the fouth of France, from the port of Vendres on the coaft of 
the cia odahiees fea to ne ee ocean on t ee coalts of 
Spain s greateft bre © leagues, and its higheft 
Rumi 1443 fathoms, (ioifes,) e 2808 metres soe fhe level 
f th 
Fra ounds in woods and forefts. A committee of 
‘the firft pees affembly ftated the whole extent of territory 
— th v sn at 13,100,091 gi bare of roo perches of 
8 e feet Fre ach, Ve kar and Mr. Arthur 
ue ie both conta ele over-rat rly it by ftating. it at 
imate may however be tolerably 
now, with the addition of the conguered coun- 
oads of France are generally {pacious, ftraight, + 
ees on ae fides with chefnut-trees, pop- 
mulberry,. other fr ey -trees, le ar 
oo ae pr. eed ioe ee Paris tot 
France. Tiurnpike-gates and tolls ice been eftablithed 
fince the rev eo at the diftance of five kiliometres from 
each other. ut y is Fy 5 emt qe tid, ae 
tor every coach fo ntimes, about 1d. for 
faddle-horfe. The ae of foe econ are nine Sere 
three lines broad. ‘They are allowed to. carry only a certain 
w eight, which varies during the five winter and . feven 
_ ammer months, 
Of the numerous canals of France, the moft confiderabl 
are, I, the fouthern canal, better. known ee the name e of the 
ae con tween the S which begins at a 
Teane and ends at Briare 2 the eaftern ieaual, known b 
pec = Canal de la Céte d’Or, and forming a esettiias i Reead 
_Letween the Yonne and Saéne; 4, the canal of the center, 
formetly called Canal du pee oe which forms a commu- 
nication between the Sadne 
France has no feos. in Europe but the kingdom of 
tie which is, however, t 
t 
aa 
the kingdoms of Naples and Holland, as well as the Helve- 
ic union, of which the Frenchempercr is the mediator, are 
_ with 
~  foil,and tothe excellence of its climate, a sivantge ofrearing. 
little _ better than dependencies or vaffal fates; foiced to- 
the dire€tion to which they are impelled by France,- 
ut, if France has been a gainer in its own immediate 
neighbourhood, it ee gaa fevere loffes in its diftant 
eee The fate mott i important es ie iflands: 
has waar -been det ale 4 aes the article St, Domingo bi Nasa 
ee I] the other French Weft India nen 
n_ conquered b the 
_ Englifh in the courfe of the war which broke out in 1803, 
and which is ftill (1810) raging. They were La Martia 
ae Guadaloupe, St. Lucia, T hae, Marie Galante, La 
Def ft rade, Les Saintes, (which fee). “Cayen rF 
as {ha a the fame fate. The poffeffion. 
i. the two iflands i a the Fait ee feas, nie and 
Bourbon, calied by the French Ifles de Fra e 
Réunion, is not 1s precarious, the ne Gane eas e-- 
cently invaded by the Englith, and the former being at this. 
pains clofely block: aded.. > Phe other commercial eftablith.- 
men the French in the Eaft Indies and on the African. 
coa it were never of any great importance, and have dwin- 
pee into complete infignihcance, through the lofs of their 
orei 
Guinea coaft. See Inprxs, and Nreror, or SLA rade. 
The fifheries of France have alfo materially rere from 
the war with England. The herring fifhery was already on 
the decline before ie revolution, sone is now almoft annilije- 
lated. Inthe fhort interval of peace in 1802 it produced... 
99550 barrels oe falt herrings . 
1000 
12,000 - red 
making in all 67,550 barrels, . 
ear eae fifhery, which was mane flooring in ele 55 
in the re in abundance at 
During the ioe tee 
188 Engl: veifels loaded at Cancale 
119,473,000 oy fo < worth 179,209 French livres. Paris. 
ees about twelve millions of oyfters an ere 
cor oral fifhery i in the Medi mancan. 
ee fea is full confiderable: 
Fréjus, St. Tropez, and Can he falt 
ochre. Eels are alfo fina for exportatio e isa 
ns abundance of all forts of fifh in all the rivers sof France, 
in fome very extenfive fifhponds, fuch as the Etang de 
Villers in the department of the Cher, which is fix leagues in’ . 
circumference, and the oe de ? Indre in the department of: 
the Meurthe, which is circum erence. 
Situated nearly in~ ote pert “of Europ n s to 
to 
alike the plants of the moft fouthern countrie ope, 
and th ofe which fucceed more particularly in he ok In: 
the eaftern ‘Pyrenees the vine is cultivated with as: much fuc- 
cefs as in Spain. Silk-worms are reared in the fouth of 
Fr much fuccefs asin Italy, and the olive oil of 
E 
jeéts of firit neceffity, food, cloathing, and thelter againft the 
mclemences of the we eather. 
ng vegetable produétions of France, the moft 
confideable are 
1. Corn, under ‘the genezal. éeaptindtion of which are 
comprifed 
