MONTCLAIR, a town of Essex county, New Jersey, U.S.A., about 15 m. N.W. of lower New York City, on the Erie and the Lackawanna railways. The population was 28,810 in 1920 (i8% foreign-born white) ; in 1930, 42,057. It is a delightful resi dential suburb, on the slopes of the Orange mts., the altitude ranging from 215 to 665 feet. It has excellent public and private schools, and is the seat of a state normal school (1908). The lower part of Montclair was settled in 1675 and gradually became known as Cranetown. In 1812 Bloomfield, in which it lay, was organized as a separate township, and in 1868 West Bloomfield (as Cranetown by this time was called) together with Speertown (settled by the Dutch) was incorporated as Montclair, which in 1894 became a town.
a town of south-west France, capital of the department of Landes at the confluence of the Midou and the Douze, 92 m. S. of Bordeaux. Pop. (1931), 8,945• Mont-de
Marsan, the first of the Bastides (q.v.) of the middle ages was founded by Pierre, vicomte de Marsan, as the capital of his terri tory in 1141. In the 13th century it passed to the viscounts of Beam, and was united to the French Crown on the accession of Henry IV. Most of the buildings are in the older quarter, on the peninsula between the two rivers forming the Midouze. A 14th century keep, now used for military purposes, was built by Gaston Phoebus. The town is the seat of a prefect, court of assizes and of a tribunal of first instance. The industries include distillation of turpentine and resinous oils, the founding and forg ing of metal, wood-sawing, and manufactures of machinery and straw envelopes for bottles. There is trade in resin, wine, brandy, timber and live stock.