AUDE, a department of France formed of a portion of the old province of Languedoc, has a fair proportion of produce and manufac tures. Mines of coal, plastic clay, and plaster of Paris are profitably worked ; limestone, good building stone, and slate are found. The Corbieres Mountains contain mines of anti mony, manganese, copper, lead, and silver ; but none of them are worked. There are several mineral and salt springs. Marble of great beauty is found among the transition limestone and the lower secondary strata in the quarries of Cannes.
The chief manufacture of the department is fine broad cloth, for making which wool is imported from Spain ; leather, hats, hosiery, paper, and pottery are made. There are nu merous distilleries, flour-mills and saw-mills, furnaces and iron foundries. The exports of the department consist of soda, which is found abundantly on the coast of the Medi terranean; salt, of which about 90,000 tons are annually made in the salt-pans in the neigh bourhood of Bages and Sigean ; boxwood combs, jet ornaments, and the agricultural, mi neral, and industrial products before named.
Besides NARBONNE, the chief manufacturing town is Carcassono, where there is a consi derable commerce in mineral products, wine, corn, fruits, ctc. ; but the town is principally engaged in the manufacture of fine broad cloth, blankets, hosiery, woollen yarn, and linen. There arc also several brandy distil leries, soaperies, dye-houses, paper-mills, and naileries in the town. Limoux has important manufactures of broad cloth : there are also woollen- yarn manufactories, tanneries, soap eries, and oil-mills. Limoux has a consider able trade in wine, and is the mart for the iron of the neighbouring furnaces. Castel naudery has manufactures of coarse cloths, canal boats, pottery, and bricks ; there are also brandy distilleries and flour-mills ; besides the articles named, the town trades in timber, iron, and hides.