TOULON

(Gr. Tel on it on, Roman Telo Martius), first-cla fortre and naval station (headquarters of Meditertanean fieet), Var, France we be vn Nee 5° 56’ E.), 42 m. H.S.E. of Marseilles; cathedral (11th to 12th cent.), church of St. Marie Majeure, town hall, arsenal, Musée, large safe double harbor, naval shipbuilding yards; port of call for Orient Steam Navigation Co.’s steamers for Egypt, Colombo, and Australia; trades in oil, wine, salt, etc.; British defeated by Span. and Fr. fleets, 1744; taken by Republicans from Royalists and British, 1793. Pop. 104,600.