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Loire (Department in the S E)

a department in the S. E. of Lyonnais and the county of Forez, comprises the arrondissements of Montbri- Etienne for its capital; area, 1,852 son, Roanne, and St. Etienne, with St. square miles; pop. about 640,000. The and lead, and the coalfields in the iron industries, 12,000 in the silk, Some 17,000 miners are employed, 25,000 and 5,500 in the cotton industries.

Woolens, linen, glass, paper, leather, etc., fodder, and potatoes are the principal are likewise manufactured . Wine, fruit, pentine are yielded by the pine woods. agricultural products.

Timber and tur- Mineral springs mier, St. Alban, etc. Mineral springs abound, as at St. Galare the richest in France. central France, formed out of the for-