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Cauterets

a watering-place in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées, France, 3,250 feet above sea-level, in the valley of the Laverdan, 42 miles S. S. E. of kinds of fruits, grain of every descrip- Pau. The stationary population of the erals are valuable. At Baku on the Castion, rice, cotton, hemp, etc. The minpian immense quantities of petroleum are obtained. The inhabitants consist of small tribes of various origin and language-Georgians, Abassians, Lesghians, Ossetes, Circassians, Tartars, Armeni ans, etc. Some of them are Greek and Armenian Christians, others are Mohammedans, Jews, etc.

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