SURE. This department is one of th cider districts of Trance; about 30,000,001 gallons are produced annually. The depart ment is rich in iron ore; building stone, mill stones, and paving granite are quarried ; fullers' earth and potters' clay are found. The manufactures consist of fine and coarse woollen cloths, linen, thread, calico, paper, printed cottons, cotton yarn, cutlery, tape, cotton hosiery, blankets, carpets, wind instru ments, horn and boxwood combs, glue, nails, pins, hardware, &c. There are numerous furnaces and foundries for the manufacture of iron, glass-works, numerous flour and paper mills, dye-houses, fulling-mills, marble-seeing works, sugar-refineries, bleaching-grounds, important copper foundries, zinc-works, and a great number of tan-yards. The factories of various kinds are about eight hundred in number. The exports are composed of the various agricultural and industrial products named; the imports chiefly of the raw mate rial required in the numerous manufactures, and of colonial produce.
Louviers, in this department, is one of the chief seats of the cloth manufacture in France; it has upwards of 40 factories, in which from 7000 to 8000 hands are employed. It has been long famous for the finest description of cloths (for uniforms &c.), which range from 30 to 05 francs an ell. Of late years coarser cloths, cassimeres, fancy goods for trousers, mantles, are also made. There are also several woollen-yarn factories, large tan-yards, bleaching establishments, card factories, steam engine and mill-work factories, dye-houses, brick-works, &c., and a brisk trade in corn,
wood, charcoal, flax, wool, teazels, &re.
This department must not be confounded with that of Eure-et-Lair, which bounds it on the south. Eure-et-Loir is one of the cider districts of France. Besides wheat, rye, barley, oats, leguminous plants, teazels, weld, flax, hemp, (U., are grown. Hops grow spon taneously in some districts of this department. The number of wind and water mills for the manufacture of flour is about seven hundred. Along the course of the Avre or Aure there are important paper-mills belonging to the Messrs. Firmin Didot. There are also nume rous other paper-mills, tanning and fulling mills, cotton-spinning factories, iron forges and furnaces (which are supplied with ore partly from the mines of the department, and partly from those of Eure), and from 500 to 600 factories and workshops of different kinds. ' Besides the articles indicated, flannels, serves, druggets, blankets, linen, sieves, and woollen hosiery, are manufactured and exported. A great number of caps are knitted of the fine wool of Beauce or of Spain, and sent to Or leans, where theyaro dyed of different colours, and form an important article of export. The imports are wine, brandy, timber, wool, cloth, colonial produce, &c. Stone, marble, granite, and gypsum are quarried. Marl is very abun dant, and is used for manure. Brick-clay and potters' clay are found.