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AUVERGNE`

An ancient province of France, united to the crown under Louis XIII. in 1610, embracing the deps. of Puy-de-Dōme, Cantal, and part of Haute-Loire, the highlands of which separate the basin of the Loire from that of the Garonne, and contain a hardy and industrious race of people descended from the original inhabitants of Gaul; they speak a strange dialect, and supply all the water-carriers and street-sweepers of Paris.

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