Saône-et-Loire, an east-midland department of France, bounded SE. and W. by the Saône and Loire; has a fine fertile surface, and is noted for its cattle and abundant output of wine; iron and coal are wrought, and its towns are busy with the manufacture of cotton goods, pottery, machinery, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 620,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Saône, Haute- * Sapphire