mit of
the western cliff, was erected in 1435. The church of Notre-Dame de Bon
Secours on the opposite cliff, and the church of St Remy, of the 16th
and 17th centuries, are other noteworthy buildings. A well-equipped
casino stands at the west end of the sea-front. The public institutions
include the subprefecture, tribunals of first instance and commerce, a
chamber of commerce, a communal college and a school of navigation.

Dieppe has one of the safest and deepest harbours on the English
Channel. A curved passage cut in the bed of the Arques and protected by
an eastern and a western jetty gives access to the outer harbour, which
communicates at the east end by a lockgate with the Bassin Duquesne and
the Bassin Berigny, and at the west end by the New Channel, with an
inner tidal harbour and two other basins. Vessels drawing 20 ft. can
enter the new docks at neap tide. A dry-dock and a gridiron are included
among the repairing facilities of the port. The harbour railway station
is on the north-west quay of the outer harbour alongside which the
steamers from Newhaven lie. The distance of Dieppe from Newhaven, with
which there has long been daily communication, is 64 m. The imports
include silk and cotton goods, thread, oil-seeds, timber, coal and
mineral oil; leading exports are wine, silk, woollen and cotton fabrics,
vegetables and fruit and flint-pebbles. The average annual value of
imports for the five years 1901-1905 was L4,916,000 (L4,301,000 for the
years 1896-1900); the exports were valued at L9,206,000 (L7,023,000 for
years 1896-1900). The industries comprise shipbuilding, cotton-spinning,
steam-sawing, the manufacture of machinery, porcelain, briquettes, lace,
and articles in ivory and bone, the production of which dates from the
15th century. There is also a tobacco factory of some importance. The
fishermen of Le Pollet, to whom tradition ascribes a Venetian origin,
are among the main providers of the Parisian market. The sea-bathing
attracts many visitors in the summer. Two miles to the north-east of the
town is the ancient camp known as the Cite de Limes, which perhaps
furnished the nucleus of the population of Dieppe.

It is suggested on the authority of its name, that Dieppe owed its
origin to a band of Norman adventurers, who found its "diep" or inlet
suitable for their ships, but it was unimportant till the latter half of
the 12th century. Its first castle was probably built in 1188 by Henry
II. of Englan