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Paris to Brest crosses the valley on a striking two-storeyed viaduct some zoo ft. above the quays. Morlaix contains a considerable number of wooden houses of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. These have large covered courts, with huge open fireplaces and carved wooden staircases, supported on pillars, leading from the See also:

court to the upper storeys. Morlaix has a sub-prefecture, tribunals of first instance and of See also:

commerce, a chamber of commerce, and colleges for boys and girls. The See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries include the manufacture of See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco occupying about 900 hands, tanning, See also:

BREWING

brewing and the manufacture of casks, wooden shoes and candles; there is an active See also:

trade in 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, See also:

BUTTER (Lat. butyrum, Gr. 0obrvpov, apparently connected with $ous, cow, and rvpbs, cheese, but, according to the New English Dictionary, perhaps of Scythian origin)

butter, oil-seeds, vegetables, See also:

leather, See also:

wax, See also:

HONEY (Chin. me ; Sansk. madhu, mead, honey; cf. A.S. medo, medu, mead; Gr. p Xt, in which 0 or b is changed into X; Lat. mel ; Fr. miel ; A.S. hung ; Ger. Honig)

honey and in horses and other livestock, which are exported by See also:

sea. The port, consisting of an See also:

OUTER

outer tidal See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour and an inner See also:

basin, admits vessels See also:

DRAWING

drawing 17 ft. at 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 tides and 12 ft. at See also:

NEAP

neap tides.

Judging by the numerous coins found on the spot, the site of Morlaix was probably occupied in the See also:

time of the See also:

Romans. The See also:

COUNTS

counts of See also:

Leon held the lordship in the 12th See also:

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

century, but the See also:

dukes of See also:

BRITTANY

Brittany disputed See also:

possession with them, and in 1187 See also:

Henry II. of See also:

England, See also:

GUARDIAN

guardian of See also:

Arthur of Brittany, made him-self See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of the town after a See also:

SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege of several See also:

WEEKS, EDWIN LORD (1849-1903)

weeks. During the See also:

HUNDRED

Hundred Years' See also:

War Morlaix was held by the See also:

French and the English in turn, and pillaged by the latter in 1522. See also:

Queen See also:

Mary of Scots, on her way to be married to the dauphin, made See also:

SOLEMN (Lat. sollemnis, sollemnis, less correctly solennis, yearly, annual; from sollus = totus, whole, entire, Gr. Mos., and annus, year)

solemn entry into Morlaix in 1548. The town having joined the See also:

LEAGUE

League, the See also:

castle was taken by See also:

storm in the name of Henry IV. in 1594.

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