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copper, arsenic, nickel, and cobalt exist, but not in such quantities as to be workable to profit. A large revenue is also derived from quarries, and valuable beds of common clay, fine potter’s earth, and kaolin. The most important manufacture is silk, which has its principal locality at Lyons and is also manufactured, though to an inferior extent, in Paris, | Nimes, Avignon, Annonay, Tours, and. other places: After it though at a considerable distance, follow cotton stuffs, pure and mixed, woolens, including broadcloths, Felle tapestry, Paris linens, including fine muslin, gauze, and lace, porcelain, stoneware, beet root sugar, leather and the various articles made of it, including gloves; paper, plain and stained; hats, hosiery, steel, iron, bra , and zinc plate and flint gla , ete. Besides. these a great number of articles in which skill, taste, and ingenuity are more especially required, have their common seat in the capital. | The commerce is usually divided into internal and external. The former is unquestionably the larger of the two, but its amount cannot be ascertained with any degree of exactne . The railways in France partly belong to the State and partly have been granted to private companies for a limited period, at the end of which they become State property. There are also certain local lines which at the end of a fixed period come into the po e ion of the departments. In France education in all its branches has long been taken under the special cognizance of the State, and the superintendence of it is expre ly committed to a high functionary, who takes the name of Minister of Public Instruction. The principal educational establishments are cla ed under three heads — primary, secondary, and superior. At the head stands the university, which is wy different from other universities, and embraces the facultes or university colleges scattered over the whole of France in the principal towns. Everybody's Cyclopedia (Vol. 2) — X **X**