Aix

the Ague Seztie of the Romans, an ancient city giving its name to an arrondi ement in the department of the Bouches-du-Rhone, France. Its hot springs were valued by the Homans, but are not much used at present. Aix was renowned as a seat of learning under the Counts of Provence, and still po e es a fine library and an academy. There are in the streets many interesting specimens of architecture, Roman and medivval. Cotton and silk manufactures exist, and a large trade js carried on in corn, wine, and oil. Aix-la-Chapelle. [Aacnen.] Aix-les-Bains, jn the department of Savoie, France, on the Lake Bourget, eight miles N. of Chambéry. The efficacy of its hot mineral springs impregnated with sulphur and soda was well known to the Romans, and all the gouty, rheumatic, and dyspeptic sufferers that can afford the treatment flock thither at present from every quarter of the globe. Royal patients give the place a fashionable prestige that increases the swarms of annual visitors. ‘The town is charmingly situated and well kept. Splendid hotels and villas have sprung up of late, and society finds amusement there, as at Hombourg. accio, the chicf town of the French island of Corsica, is situated on the W. coast, and has a commodious and safe harbour. It is well built, and contains all the buildings connected with the wlministration, as well as a bishop’s palace and a School of Hydrography. The house in which Napoleon gran ae was born (1769) is still extant. The trade of the place is principally in wine, oil, fruit, anchovies, and coral.