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Tarn-Et-Garonne

a department of France, named after its two chief rivers; area, 1,441 square miles; pop. about 182,500. This department belongs to the basin of the Garonne which traverses it S. to N. W., and receives within it the accumulated waters of the Tarn and Aveyron which are both navigable. The arable land raises heavy crops of wheat, maize, hemp, tobacco, grapes, and fruit of all kinds. The most important manufactures consist of common woolen cloth and serge, linen goods, silk hosiery, cutlery, leather, etc.; capital, Montauban.

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