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 —Nay—if you don't believe me, you may read the chapter for your pains.

, Calatium, Calusium, Calesium.

This town, if we may trust it's archives, the authority of which I see no reason to call in question in this place—was once no more than a small village belonging to one of the first Counts de Guines; and as it boasts at present of no less than fourteen thousand inhabitants, exclusive of four hundred and twenty distinct families in the basse ville, or suburbs—it must have grown up by little and little, I suppose, to it's present size.