3. In the third arrondissement the chief town, Grasse, situated on the slope of a high hill, 23 miles E. from Draguignan, has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a college, an ecclesiastical school, and 11,381 inhabitants, who manufacture coarse woollens, silk, liqueurs, olive-oil, soap, leather, and a great quantity of essences and perfumes, particularly those made from orange flowers, roses, mint, &c. The houses of the town are well built ; but the streets are steep, crooked, and narrow. In the highest part of the town there is an abundant spring, which supplies water to two publio wash houses, and drives the machinery of several mills ; after performing these services the water is conducted by canals to irrigate the environs of the town, which abound in flower-gardena Antibes is noticed in a separate article [Atertazs.] Cannes, a small town of 3381 inhabit ants, situated on the slope of a hill above the shore of the Mediter ranean, S miles S. from Grasse, is pretty well built, and has a large quay, but vessels cannot come close to shore. The vicinity of Cannes presents many beautiful sites in which the orange and citron flourish; the climate is delicious. Vence, an ill-built walled town, with pretty suburbs, is sitnated 12 miles N.E. from Grasse, in a well-cultivated district and a most delightful climate; it occupies an ancient site, as is proved by its old ruins with inscriptions, and has 3165 inhabitants, who manufacture leather and oil.
4. In the fourth arrondissement the chief town is TOLILON. HYkRES. Cuero, situated 13 miles N.E. from Toulon, among vineyards, olive grounds, and orchards, has an agricultural population of 4300. Wielder, on the road from Toulon to Marseille, and at the extremity of a savage gorge, has a population of 3000. is a well-laid out and a well-built town, with large quays, a good port, a small ship-building yard, and about 8000 inhabitants : it is at the western cud of the inner road of Toulon, about 3 miles from that town ; the tunny and sardine fisheries are actively carried on. Is on the river Gapean, 7 miles N.E. from Toulon; the neighbourhood comprehends some of the best grass-lands in the department : popu lation about 3000.
The department constitutes the diocese of Frejus, the bishop of which fa a suffragan of tho archbishop of Aix, Arles, and Embrun. It is in the jurisdiction of the High Court, and within the limits of the University-Academy of Aix, and is included in the 9th Military Division, of which the head-quarters are at Marseille. It sends three members to the Legislative Body of the French empire.