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bank of the Doubs. The central region is occupied by hilly plateaux covered with pasturage and forests, while the rest of the department is traversed by the remaining three See also:

mountain ranges, the highest and most easterly of which contains the Mont d'Or (480o ft.), the culminating point of Doubs. Besides the Doubs the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

rivers are its tributaries, the Dessoubre, watering the See also:

east of the department, and the Loue, which traverses its See also:

south-western portion. The See also:

CLIMATE

climate is in See also:

general See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold and See also:

RAINY, ROBERT (1826-1906)

rainy, and the winters are severe. The See also:

SOIL

soil is stony and loamy, and at the higher levels there are numerous See also:

PEAT (possibly connected with Med. Lat. petia, pecia, piece, ultimately of Celtic origin; cf. O. Celt. pet, O. Ir. pit, Welsh peth, portion)

peat-bogs.

Approximately a fifth of the See also:

TOTAL

total area is planted with cereals; more than a third is occupied by pasture. In its agricultural aspect the department may be divided into three regions. The highest, on which the See also:

SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow usually lies from six to eight months in the See also:

YEAR

year, is in part barren, but on its less exposed slopes is occupied by forests of See also:

fir A Ykt• Large See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron foundries are found at Audincourt (pop. S317) and other towns. The See also:

DISTILLATION (from the Lat. distillare, more correctly destillare, to drop or trickle down)

distillation of See also:

BRANDY

brandy and See also:

ABSINTHE

absinthe, and the manufacture of See also:

cotton and woollen goods, automobiles and See also:

paper,, are also carried on. Exports include watches, live-stock,, See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine, vegetables, iron and hardware; See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, hides, See also:

TIMBER

timber, See also:

COAL

coal, wine and machinery are imported. Large quantities of goods, in transit between France and Switzerland, pass through the department. Among its See also:

MINERAL

mineral products are See also:

BUILDING

building See also:

stone and See also:

lime, and there are peat workings. Doubs is served by the See also:

Paris-See also:

Lyon railway, the See also:

LINE

line from See also:

Dole to Switzerland passing, via See also:

PONTARLIER

Pontarlier, through the south of the department. The See also:

canal from the See also:

Rhone to the See also:

RHINE (Lat. Rhenus, Ger. Rhein, Fr. Rhin, Dutch Rhyn, or Rijn)

Rhine traverses it for 84 See also:

MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles. The department is divided into the arrondissements of See also:

BESANCON

Besancon, See also:

BAUME, ANTOINE (1728-1894)

Baume-See also:

les-Dames, Montbeliard and Pontarlier, with 27 cantons and 637 communes. It belongs to, the academie (educational circumscription) and the See also:

DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese of Besancon, which is the See also:

capital, the seat of an See also:

ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop and of a See also:

court of See also:

APPEAL

appeal, and headquarters of the VII. See also:

army See also:

CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

corps.

Besides Besancon the chief towns are Montbeliard and Pontarlier (qq.v.). Ornans,.a See also:

TOWN

town on the Loue, has a See also:

church of the 16th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century and ruins of a feudal See also:

castle, which are of antiquarian See also:

INTEREST

interest. Montbenoit on the Doubs near Pontarlier has the remains of an See also:

Augustine See also:

abbey (13th to 16th centuries). The cloisters are of the 15th century, and the church contains, among other See also:

WORKS

works of See also:

art, some See also:

FINE

fine stalls executed in the 16th century. See also:

LOWER

Lower down the Doubs is the town of Morteau, with the Maison Pertuisier, a See also:

house of the See also:

RENAISSANCE, THE

Renaissance See also:

period, and a church which still preserves remains of a previous structure of the 13th century. Baume-les-Dames owes the affix of its name to a See also:

BENEDICTINE

Benedictine See also:

CONVENT (Lat. conventus, from convenire, to come together)

convent founded in 763, to which only See also:

NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble ladies were admitted. Numerous antiquities have been found at Mandeure (near Montbeliard), which stands on the site of the See also:

ROMAN

Roman town of Epom,anduodurum.

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