The Universal Geography Earth And Its Inhabitants volume 2 France And Switzer
The Universal Geography Earth And Its Inhabitants volume 2 France And Switzer
Elise Reclus
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On the 17th of March no less than •08, '273 cubic feet of water passed every second beneath the bridges of Paris, being fifty times more than when the river is at its lowest. But the difference, after all, is little compared with what may be witnessed in connection willi tlie Loire and the rivers of the south. M. Belgrand has shown, however, that during 284 FRANCE. A geological epoch coinciding with the stone age, the Seine, too, had its floods, its volume sometimes exceeding 1, 000, 000 cubic ...feet a second. The Marne, which joins the principal river at the very gates of Paris, is of greater length than the Seine, but its volume is less, and nowhere within its basin does the annual rainfall exceed 24 inches. Between Epernay and Meaux the annual precipitation only amounts to 16 inches, and most of the rain is sucked up by the soil. This small amount of rain, however, is not attended by sterility, for that portion of the Champagne known as " lousy, " on account of its Fig. 207. — The Basin op Vitey-le-Fkanjois.
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