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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 875 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAR , a See also:

town of See also:south-western See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Landes, 92 M. S.S.W. of See also:Bordeaux, on the See also:Southern railway between that See also:city and See also:Bayonne. Pop. (rgo6) 8585. The town lies on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Adour, a See also:stone See also:bridge uniting it to its suburb of Le Sablar on the right bank. It has remains of See also:ancient Gallo-See also:Roman fortifications, now converted into a See also:promenade. The most remarkable See also:building in the town is the See also:church of Notre-See also:Dame, once a See also:cathedral; it was rebuilt from. 1656 to 1719, but still preserves a See also:sacristy, a See also:porch and a See also:fine sculptured See also:doorway of the 13th See also:century. The church of St See also:Vincent, to the south-See also:west of the town, derives its name from the first See also:bishop, whose See also:tomb it contains. The church of St See also:Paul-See also:les-Dax, a suburb on the right bank of the Adour, belongs mainly to the 15th century, and has a Romanesque See also:apse adorned with curious bas-reliefs. On a See also:hill to the west of Dax stands a See also:tower built in memory of the sailor and scientist See also:Jean See also:Charles See also:Borda, See also:born there in 1733; a statue was erected to him in the town in 1891. Dax, which is well known as a See also:winter resort, owes much of its importance to its thermal See also:waters and mud-See also:baths (the See also:deposit of the Adour), which are efficacious in cases of See also:rheumatism, See also:neuralgia and other disorders.

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spring is the See also:Fontaine Chaude, which issues into a See also:basin 16o ft. wide in the centre of the town. The See also:principal of numerous bathing establishments are the Grands Thermes, the Bains Sales, adjoining a See also:casino, and the Baignots, which fringe the Adour and are surrounded by gardens. Dax has a sub-prefecture, tribunals of first instance and of See also:commerce, a communal See also:college, a training college and a library. It has See also:salt workings, tanneries, saw-See also:mills, manufactures of See also:soap and corks; commerce is chiefly in the See also:pine See also:wood, See also:resin and See also:cork of the Landes, in mules, See also:cattle, horses and poultry. Dax (See also:Aquae Tarbellicae, Aquae Augustae, later D'Acqs) was the capital of the Tarbelli under the Roman domination, when its waters were already famous. Later it was the seat of a viscounty, which in the 11th century passed to the viscounts of See also:Beam, and in 1177 was annexed by See also:Richard Coeur de See also:Lion to See also:Gascony. The bishopric, founded in the 3rd century, was in 18or attached to that of See also:Aire.

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