Gray, a town in the French department of Haute-Saône, on the Saône, which is here crossed by a stone bridge of the 13th century, 25 miles NW. of Besançon. It has remains of an ancient castle of the dukes of Burgundy, some trade in corn, flour, and iron, and iron-industries and boat-building. Pop. 6737.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 368
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