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France, 



Ancient Names^ 



Departments. Chief Towns. Square Popul* 



Miles. tion. 



. . 2056 267,249 



-. . 2167 313,876 



. . 1343 180,655 



* . 2065 225,549 



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D derLnd ^'l L ° Wer Meuse Maastricht 



Liege 8c Duchy? 



ol Limbourg ) & 



County of Na- } Sambre and } XT 



3 > ,«• > Namur . . 



mur . . 3 Meuse 3 



£ " > Forets . . . Luxemburg 



emburg . 3 & 



GERMAN TERRITORY ON THE LEFT 



RHINE. 



Ancient Names. Departments. Chief Towns. 



Archbishopric 

 of Cologne 



Archbishopric 

 of Treves 



Roer 



Rhine & Mo- 

 selle 



Cologne 



" > Coblentz 



Duchy of Deux ? e t- 



~ ' > Sarre . . . Treves . 



Ponts . . 3 



MontTonnere Mentz . 



Archbishopric 

 of Mentz 



Square Popula. 

 Miles. tion. 



. . 1953 616,287 



. . 1415 248,814 



. . 1878 259,522 



. . 1779 342,316 



Departments. 



Ivrea . 

 Marengo 

 Po . . 

 Sesia . 

 Stura . 

 Tanaro 



PIEDMONT. 



Chief Towns. 



Ivrea . 

 Alexandria 

 Turin . . 

 Vergeil 

 Coni . . 

 Asti . . . 



Sq. Miles. Population. 



1383 252,200 



990 373,400 



778 437,500 



576 206,200 



1800 395,500 



864 281,000 



Holland, which was added to France in 1810, contains 12,662 

 square miles, and 2,001,416 inhabitants. 



Each department is divided into three, four, or five districts, called 

 communal arrondissements. These districts are again subdivided in- 

 to cantons, which are composed of a certain number of communes. 

 A commune is sometimes a single town, and sometimes a union of 

 sevei'al villages, possessing a mayor and communal municipality. All 

 the considerable cities are divided into several communes. 



Face of the country. ...France is in general a plain country, and 

 its appearance is very various in different parts. The departments of 

 Upper Vienne and Correze, and others in the south, afford many rich 

 and beautiful landscapes ; while those of the old provinces of Bre- 

 tagne, Anjou, and Maine, present extensive wastes of heath, and 

 have almost the appearance of a desert. 



Mountains. ...The chief mountains in France, or its borders, are 

 the Alps, which divide France from Italy; the Pyrenees, which di- 

 vide France from Spain ; the Vosges, which separate the depart- 

 ment of that name from the departments of Upper Saone and Upper 

 Rhine; Mount Jura, which divides France from Switzerland; the 

 Cevennes, in the late province of Languedoc ; and Mount d'Or, in 

 Puy de Dome 



Forests. ...The chief forests of France are those of Orleans, which 

 contain 1 4,000 acres of wood of various kinds, oak, elm, ash, &c. and 



