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LOCLE, LE , a See also:town in the Swiss See also:canton of See also:Neuchatel, 24 M. by See also:rail N. of Neuchatel, and 5 m. S.W. of La Chaux de Fonds. It is built (3035 ft. above the See also:sea-level) on the Bied stream in a valley of the See also:Jura, and is about 1 m. from the See also:French frontier. In 1681 See also:Daniel See also:Jean See also:Richard introduced See also:watch-making here, which soon drove out all other See also:industries. In 1900 the See also:population was 12,J59, mainly Protestants and French-speaking. The See also:church See also:tower See also:dates from 1521, but tfie old town was destroyed by See also:fire in 1833. The valley in which the town is situated used to be subject to inundations, but in 1805 a tunliel was constructed by means of which the surplus See also:waters of the Bied are carried into the See also:Doubs. About 1 m. W. of the town the Bied plunged into a deep chasm, on the steep See also:rock See also:face of which were formerly the subterranean See also:mills of the See also:Col See also:des Roches, situated one above another; but the stream is now diverted by the above-mentioned See also:tunnel, while another serves the railway See also:line from Le Locle to Morteau in See also:France (8 m.). (W. A. B.

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