ORANGE, the ancient Arausio, an ill-built town, with a tribunal of first instance and a college, is situated in the French department of Vaucluse, near the left bank of the Rhone, iu a beautiful plain watered by the Aigue and several other small streams, in 44° 8' N. lat., 4° 48' 38" E. long., at a distance of 16 miles by railway N. from Avignon, 147 feet above the sea level, and has 9264 inhabitants in the commune. The town has some manufactures of printed cottons, handkerchiefs, serge, and silk ; it has also a good trade in wine, brandy, oil, madder, saffron, honey, wool, corn, truffle/3, essences, &o. It abounds in Roman remains. A triumphal arch, commonly called the Arch of Marius, 60 feet high, consisting of a ccutral arcade and two smaller lateral ones, separated by four Corinthian pillars, spans the high road at the northern entrance to the town, and is justly dear to arekeolo gists for the beauty of its architecture and the rich sculptures of its illustrative bas-reliefs. The northern façade of the theatre, which still stands in the centre of the town, and presents a gigantic rectangle 485 feet long and 115 feet high, is a most magnificent piece of masonry.
It consists of five stories, and is built of large uncemented stones. The baletneut story has a grand entrance gateway in the centre supported by Corinthian pillars with capitals of white marble; on each side of the principal entrants. are 9 arcades separated by Done pilasters. The third story consiat, of 21 sunk arches of beautiful workmanship. The fifth story presents a row of large projecting square stones, cors responding to a similar row at the top of the fourth story, and pierced by holes intended to receive the poles which sustained the awning (solaria) that covered the spectators in the interior of the theatre. The interior has been lately cleared of rubbish and of the huts that were built in it, and now presents a perfect now of the several parts of a Roman theatre, but deprives' of all its ornaments. (Dielionnaire de la France.)