LE See also:

• LE LOCLE

LOCLE  , a See also:

• TOWN

town in the Swiss See also:

• CANTON
• CANTON (borrowed from the Ital. cantone, a corner or angle)
• CANTON (more correctly KWANG-CHOW Fu)
• CANTON, JOHN (1718-1772)

canton of See also:

• NEUCHATEL
• NEUCHATEL (Ger. Neuenburg)
• NEUCHATEL, LAKE OF

Neuchatel, 24 M. by See also:

• RAIL

rail N. of Neuchatel, and 5 m . S.W. of La Chaux de Fonds . It is built (3035 ft. above the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-level) on the Bied stream in a valley of the See also:

• JURA
• JURA (" deer island ")

Jura, and is about 1 m. from the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French frontier . In 1681 See also:

• DANIEL
• DANIEL (DANIL)
• DANIEL, BOOK
• DANIEL, GABRIEL (1649-1728)

Daniel See also:

• JEAN

Jean See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard introduced See also:

• WATCH (in O. Eng. wcecce, a keeping guard or watching, from wacian, to guard, watch, wacan, to wake)

watch-making here, which soon drove out all other See also:

• INDUSTRIES

industries . In 1900 the See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population was 12,J59, mainly Protestants and French-speaking . The See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church See also:

• TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower See also:

• DATES

dates from 1521, but tfie old town was destroyed by See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire in 1833 . The valley in which the town is situated used to be subject to inundations, but in 1805 a tunliel was constructed by means of which the surplus See also:

• WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters of the Bied are carried into the See also:

• DOUBS

Doubs . About 1 m . W. of the town the Bied plunged into a deep chasm, on the steep See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

rock See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face of which were formerly the subterranean See also:

• MILLS, JOHN (d. 1736)
• MILLS, ROGER QUARLES (1832– )

mills of the See also:

• COL
• COL (Fr. for " neck," Lat. collum)

Col See also:

• DES

des Roches, situated one above another; but the stream is now diverted by the above-mentioned See also:

• TUNNEL (Fr. tonne!, later tonneau, a diminutive from Low Lat. tonna, tunna, a tun, cask)

tunnel, while another serves the railway See also:

• LINE

line from Le See also:

• LOCLE, LE

Locle to Morteau in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France (8 m.) . (W . A . B .