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MONTCLAIR , a See also:

town of See also:Essex See also:county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., 5 M. N.N.W. of See also:Newark. Pop. (1910 See also:census) 21,550. It is served by the See also:Erie and the See also:Delaware, Lackawanna & Western See also:railways, and by electric lines to Caldwell and Newark. It is situated at the See also:base and on the slopes of the See also:Orange Mountains (its See also:altitude above the See also:sea varying from 217 to about 665 ft.), has an irregular See also:street See also:plan, and is a residential suburb of New See also:York and other neighbouring cities. Montclair has excellent public See also:schools. Among the town's institutions are the Mountainside See also:hospital, a See also:state normal school (1908), Montclair See also:academy (1887), a public library, and two See also:orphan asylums. An See also:annual See also:Bach festival was first held here in See also:June 1905. The See also:lower See also:part of Montclair was settled about 1675 and gradually became known as Cranetown, which name it retained until 1812. In that See also:year See also:Bloomfield, including Cranetown, was organized as a See also:separate township. In x868 Cranetown, then popularly known as See also:West Bloomfield, with the addition of the Dutch-settled Speertown, was incorporated as Montclair.

Montclair became a town in 1894. See See also:

Henry Whittemore, See also:History of Montclair (New York, 1894). MONT-DE-MARSAN, a town of See also:south-west See also:France, See also:capital of the See also:department of See also:Landes at the confluence of the Midou and the Douze, 92 M. S. of See also:Bordeaux on the See also:Southern railway between Morcenx and See also:Tarbes. Pop. (1906), 9059. Most of the buildings are in the older See also:quarter, on the See also:peninsula between the two See also:rivers forming the Midouze. La Pepiniere, a beautiful public See also:garden, extends along the right See also:bank of the Douze. A keep of the 14th See also:century, now used for military purposes, was built by Gaston See also:Phoebus, See also:count of See also:Foix, to overawe the inhabitants, and goes by the name of Nou-Ii-See also:Bos (in See also:modern See also:French " Tu ne 1'y veux pas "). The finest of the modern buildings is an See also:officers' See also:club, which contains a small museum. A See also:court of assizes sits in the town; the See also:local institutions comprise a tribunal of first instance, a See also:branch of the Bank of France, and a lycee. The See also:industries include See also:distillation of See also:turpentine and resinous See also:oils, tanning, the See also:founding and See also:forging of See also:metal, See also:wood-sawing, and manufactures of machinery and See also:straw envelopes for bottles.

There is See also:

trade in See also:resin, See also:wine, See also:brandy, See also:timber, See also:cattle, horses and other live stock. Mont-de-Marsan, the first of the Bastides (q.v.) of the See also:middle ages, See also:dates from 1141, when it was founded by See also:Pierre, vicomte de Marsan, as the capital of his territory. In the 13th century it passed to the viscounts of See also:Beam, but the harsh See also:rule of Gaston Phoebus and some of his successors induced the See also:people to favour the See also:English. The territory was See also:united to the French See also:Crown on the See also:accession of Henry IV.

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