Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. GALLIA. (xAUL, bounded by the sea from the north to the west, was limited on the eastern side only by the Rhine, in the whole extent of its course. The chain of the Alps succeeded thence to the Mediterranean : the coast of this sea, and then the Pyrenees, terminated the southern part. Thus we may remark that France does not occupy the whole extent of ancient Gaul, seeing the excess of this on the side of the Rhine and Alps. Few countries are so advantageously intersected with rivers. To give some detail of them, we must begin with the Mosella, as discharging itself into the Rhine, which we have just mentioned. The Mosa, the Meuse, or Maes, flowing northward as well as the Rhine, receives, before it arrives It did not at the time when M. D'Anvftle wrote; but wonderful changes have arisen from the French revolution. at the sea, a branch emanating from that river' under the name of Vahaldis, the Waal; and Scahlis, the Scheldt, is connected towards its mouth with that of the Meuse. In quitting the northern parl of Gaul, Sequana, the Seine, which, among other rivers, receives the Ma- Irona, the Marne, and, after a considerable interval, Liger, the Loire, which running to the north to reflect itself again westward, is augmented by the Elaver, or Alier; Garumna, the Garonne, which, before opening a considerable gulf at its mouth, receives the Dura- nius, or Dordogne ; and finally, the Atums, or Adour, near the Pyrenees ; are the rivers which we may cite preferably to others, as being the principal ones which the Western Ocean receives from Gaul. On the side of the Mediterranean, Rhodanus, the Rhone, carries away with it three rivers, whose names were Arar, Isara, and Druentia, now the Soane, the Isere, and the Durance. We refrain at present from enumerating the less cons...