DROITWICH, (OF.. Fr. droit, right, customs duty + Eng. trick wick, salt-spring. Icel. irk, creek, Lat. saliva, salt-spring:). _1 municipal borough in Worcestershire, England, seven miles north-northeast of Worcester, in the narrow valley of the Salwarpe, and on a canal With the Severn, which admits vessels of 00 tons f .11ap: England, D 4). It has direct, communication, also, by mean; of other canals, with Birmingham and London and the inter mediate district. Its chief trade is salt, for which it has been famous remote times. In the middle of the town, rising from a depth of 200 feet through beds of new red sandstone and gypsum, are the celebrated wycht•s, or brine springs. containing between 33 and 40 per vent. of pure salt, and yielding annually over 100,000 Ica', of salt, a large part of which is exported to foreign countries. The saline baths are much frequented. Population, in 1891. 4021: in 1901, 4103. The remains of a Boman villa, with tes sellated pavements. etc., were found here.
DRoME, drum. .1 southeastern department of France. bounded on the west by the Itlione (Map: Frame, M 7). Area, 2500 square miles: population, in 1891k 300.213; in 1901, •94,704. Toward the east the surface is hilly, a spur of the traversing the eastern limits. and send ing offshoots of about 3500 feet in average height westward across almost the entire area of Drrone. These heights. covered with forests of pine, oak, and beech, afford excellent pasturage in summer and autumn. The general direction of the rivers is westward. toward the Rhone; the most notable are the Drteme, front which the department takes its name. and the Vines and mulberry. chestnut, walnut, and olive trees are extensively grown. In the iwoduetion of mulberry leaves and in silkworm capture. Drtone is one of the leading departments of France. lice manufactures consist chiefly of woolen cloth, silk, hosiery, serge, and cotton yarn. Capital, Va lence.