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Canal de la Neste in the department of Hautes-Pyrenees; and of the latter, the Arros, Midou and Douze, the last two uniting and taking the name of Midouze before joining the Adour. The See also:

CLIMATE

climate is temperate; its drawbacks are the unwholesome south-east See also:

wind and the destructive See also:

HAIL (O. Eng. kcegl and hagol, 1 cf. the cognate Teutonic hagel, as in German, Dutch, Swedish, &c.; the Gr. K&XX17E, pebble, is probably allied)

hail-storms which sometimes occur in See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring.

There is seldom any 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 or See also:

frost. Over the greater portion of the department the See also:

ANNUAL

annual rainfall varies between 28 and 32 in. Gers is primarily agricultural. The south-western See also:

DISTRICT

district is the most productive, but the valleys generally are fertile and the See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain produced is more than sufficient for See also:

LOCAL

local See also:

CONSUMPTION (Lat. consumere)

consumption. See also:

Wheat, See also:

MAIZE, or INDIAN CORN

maize and oats are the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal cereals. About one-third of the See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine produced is used for See also:

home consumption, and the See also:

REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder is chiefly manufactured into See also:

BRANDY

brandy, known by the name of Armagnac, second only to See also:

COGNAC

Cognac in reputation. The natural pastures are supplemented chiefly by crops of See also:

SAINFOIN

sainfoin and See also:

CLOVER

clover; horses, 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, See also:

sheep and See also:

SWINE

swine are reared in considerable See also:

numbers; turkeys, geese and, other poultry are abundant. There are See also:

MINERAL

mineral springs at Aurenson, Barbotan and several other places in the department. The mineral See also:

PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production and manufactures are unimportant. See also:

BUILDING

Building See also:

stone and See also:

clay are obtained. See also:

FLOUR

Flour-See also:

mills, saw-mills, tanneries, See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick-See also:

WORKS

works and cask-works are the chief See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial establishments. Gers is divided into the arrondissements of See also:

AUCH

Auch, See also:

LECTOURE

Lectoure, See also:

MIRANDE

Mirande, See also:

CONDOM

Condom and Lombez, with 29 cantons and 466 communes.

The chief See also:

TOWN

town is Auch, the seat of an archbishopric. The department falls within the circumscription of the See also:

APPEAL

appeal-See also:

court of See also:

AGEN

Agen, and the region of the XVII. 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. It forms part of the academie (educational circumscription) of See also:

Toulouse. Auch, Condom, Lectoure and Mirande are the principal towns. The following are also of See also:

INTEREST

interest: Lombez, with its See also:

church of Sainte-See also:

MARIE

Marie, once a See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral, dating from the 14th See also:

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

century, when the bishopric was created; Flaran, with an See also:

abbey-church of the last See also:

HALF

half of the 12th century; La Romieu, with a church of the' same See also:

period and a beautiful See also:

CLOISTER (Lat. claustrum; Fr. cloitre; Ital. chiostro; Span. claustro; Ger. Kloster)

cloister; Simorre, with a fortified abbey-church of the 14th century; and Fleurance, with a handsome church, also of the 14th century, containing stained See also:

glass of the 16th century.

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