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188 other churches or convent chapels are of interest, but it is enough to mention StSepulchre’s for the sake of its beautiful stone spire and stained-glass windows. A fine collection of records, a picture gallery, and a theatre are all accommodated in the town-hall, built of the materials of the abbey of StBertin. Among the five hospitals the military hospital is of note as occupying the college opened by the English Jesuits in and known as the place where O’Connell received his education. The old episcopal palace is used as a court-house. Several learned societies exist in the town; the public library contains 20,000 volumes and 1000 MSS. The arsenal is an extensive series of buildings. Besides 30,000,000 to 40,000,000 tobacco-pipes ed to and the colonies, StOmer manufactures cloth, hosiery, and tulle, cambric, and muslin embroideries. Its trade (and it is the seat not only of a tribunal but also of a chamber of commerce) is mainly in provisions for England, the products of the local industry, and those of the paper-mills, flour-mills, distilleries, and sugar-factories in the vicinity, especially along the banks of the Aa. The suburb of Haut Pont to the north of StOmer is inhabited by a special stock, which has remained faithful to the Flemish tongue, its original costume, and its peculiar customs, and is distinguished by honesty and industry. The ground which these people cultivate has been reclaimed from the marsh, and the lègres (i.e., the square blocks of land) communicate with each other only by boats floated on the ditches and canals that divide them. At the end of the marsh, on the borders of the forest of Clairmarais, are the ruins of the abbey founded in by Thierri d’Alsace, to which Thomas a Becket betook himself in. To the south of StOmer on a hill commanding the Aa lies the camp of Helfaut, often called the camp of StOmer. On 15th June 1884 a statue was erected to Jacqueline Robin, a heroine who in the time of Louis XIV. saved StOmer from foreign occupation. The of the  was 20,479 in 1881 (21,556 in the commune).

1em  SAINTONGE (Santonia, Santonensis tractus), an old province of, of which was the capital, was bounded on the N.W. by, on the N.E. by , on the E. by , on the S. by , and on the W. by  and the. It now forms a small portion of the of  and the greater part of that of.  OUEN, an district in the outskirts of, on the right of the, 1  above. It had 17,718 inhabitants in 1881. The (6  in ), where the  from the lower  discharge, are connected by  with the Northern and Eastern  at  and with the circular  near. The importance of Ouen is mainly due to its establishments,  and s, , ,  works, , &c.; it has also the - for  the upper quarters of  with  from , a , and a fine , occupying the site of the  in which  signed (2d  1814) the declaration by which he promised a  to.  PAUL, a of the, second of, a  and the capital of  and of  , is situated in 44°52′ 46″N. and 93° 5′W. , on the, 2150  from its , 10 below the  of Anthony, the natural head of , and 360 north-west of. The on which the  is  rises from the  in a series of terraces, the ascent being in many places precipitous and not easily adapted to  uses. The is mainly confined to the second and third terraces, but is gradually spreading over the elevated  beyond. The difficulties of the situation have much increased the cost of large , circumscribed the  quarter, and impeded the   in securing convenient and adequate facilities. The site is underlaid with a thick  of bluish, which comes near the surface, and which, while it renders  expensive, furnishes unlimited supplies of  material of a fair quality. The of the older portions are uncomfortably narrow, but the newer  are better laid out.

The chief  are the   ( in ), the  - and, the -, and the -. A handsome - and a chamber of  are conspicuous features. In there were seventy-one  organizations,—9, 7 , 4 , 12 , 12 , 2 , 7 , 11 , 1 , 4 , 1 , and 1. Besides the connected with the  organizations there are an , a home for the friendless, a  , a ’s  home, and a. Of there were issued in  5, 17 lies, and 7 lies. The has  eleven, of which six are al with an aggregate paid-up  of 5,200,000, and five   with a paid-up  of 1,150,000. Paul is an important centre, dividing with  the terminal and distributing  of no less than fifteen  owned by six different  and having an aggregate length of 15,818. The of the upper  acts as a check upon the rates charged by the 