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of Brandon, about 14,000 feet; ft peak west of tbo village of Mmirin 

 13,107 fet; Mont Trots EUions, 12,737 foet ; and others. Of the 

 Pyrrnors the Hubert point i* in Spain, but other point* which nearly 



feet high; Lc-Bre**oir near the source of the Meurthe, 4049 feet; 

 and Le-Ballon-d'AUace, 4124 feet. [Vetoes.] 



From the heights of Longres a range of high Ian. In (inrludiiif; the 



e-iual it are in France, *everal of the peaks of the Vignemale group, ' Faucillea Moimtaina, the Argonue hilU, and height* of the Arduune), 

 ft the bead of the vulley of Cauteretz, reaching to nearly 11,000 feet ; extends in a north-west direction to the coast of La-Manche, about 

 Mont d'Or, in the Jura, baa a height of 4920 feet, and Le-Gros- [ Cape GHz-Nox, separating the streams which belong to the baaina of the 

 Taureau, near Pontarlier, 435). [Atrs; I'vRtNErs; Jrn.v SIoi'X- Rhine and the Escaut from those which belong to the river systems of 



TAINS; ALTO, HAUTES; Doccs-J 



central Franco.- A branch from these heights divide* the baaina of 

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1 \ Long. J' >3 E. 



HAY OF BISCAY, 



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A, the frontier towardi Belgium meet* the eout. 



B, the frontier towards Ilraria meets the Rhine. 



C, the frontier towards Switzerland meets the 

 Rhine. 



D, junctions of the Rhone snd the Guicrs. 



E, month of the Var. 



f Ut. 4J 1 55' N. 

 '( Long. 3' 10' E. 



F, Cape Notre. Hume, on the coast near Toulon. 



0, mouth of the canal of Alfrnes Mortes. 



11, tin' frontier towardi Spain meets the Meilitrr. 

 ranran. 



1, the same frontier meets the ocean. 

 K, mouth of the Si-vie of Xiort. 



I., Bcc~du-Raz. 



M, on the roast north-west of Brest. 



N, Mont SI. -Michel, in Cancalc Bay. 



O, Cape La-Hague. 



r, i r-ll/ivre, at the mouth of the s-liie. 



Q, Cape <;i'i--Nc'7, bctwi-cn Calais and Boulogne. 



The CeVennet are Mparated from the Pyreneo* by a valley, through 



iich the great canal of Languedoc run* ; they extcixl in n north- 

 uorth-en.t direction, nnd after sending off branches to join the group of 

 primitive- nml baaaltle mountains of Auvergne, turn to the nortliwur.l 

 and skirt thn valloy of tli,- Hh^na and the Saon,- : in tlii^pnrtof 

 ourse they are known (according to the districts through which 

 ""7 P") Jj heights of VivaraU, Forcz, Lyonnnis, BoanjolaU or 



jarollaii. Mont Mezen, the culminnting p.int of the Ctfvennes, is 

 I fort hwh. The mowntain, of Auvergne surpass the Cdvennes in 

 height Tl, I'ic-d^Sancy, the highest of the Monts-Dore. or Mont 

 I Or Mountains, Is ! feet high, and the Plomb-de-Cantil is 6095 

 fert abore the leTel of the sea. There are several other ' Puys,' or 

 volcanic summit., of inferior height among the Auvergne Mountains. 

 [ARDfcciu; Amman; CAJCTAL ; Otrnnn; PUT DK-D6MB.] 



The comparatively humble slope* of the Cftte-d'Or of Bourgogno 

 (Bargnndy) may be regarded a* a continuation of th CharoUais 

 heights, and serve with the heights of Langres to connect the 

 :><* with the Volets whose branches ext<-nd to the south-east 

 so as to unite with the Jura, and whose wild and wooded stoops form 

 the western boundary of the valley of the Hhino. The- prin< ii.:il 

 summit* of the VongM are Le-Ballon-de-Soultz, or Quebwilcr, 4095 



the Seine and the Sonimo. From the Clkirollais heights ft ranpe of 

 hillii of gradually diminishing clevnlion extends to the neighbon 

 of tho Loirn, Heparntcs that river from the stn-amn which flow into 

 the Seine, and connects tli 1 mountain yti-in of ccntml Vran. 

 tin? heights of Beatioi 1 , which mv a prolongation of the Monrz Moun- 

 tains of Itrrtagne. Thme run from the liradlnndn near Brest in an 

 easterly direction. A range which proceeds in a north-west direction 

 from the central group of the Anvcrgne Mountains toward the mouth 

 of the Loire, and is called the heights of Oatiue, separates the basin 

 of the Loire from that of the Garonne ; and another range, which 

 branches off from the Pyrenees near the Pic-du-Midi, and runs north- 

 wt>t tilt it subsides in tbo Landes near Bordeaux, separates the basins 

 of the Garonne ami tin- Adour. 



The CiSvennon, the heights of Langres, the Paucities Mountains, and 

 the upland* of tho Ardcnnc, separate the western or oceanic slope from 

 the eastern ; the latter is Subdivided by the Faucillcs Mountains, and 

 by a branch of the Vosges which unites with the Jura, into tho 

 north-eastern or Rhenish slope, and the south-eastern or Mediterranean 

 slope. 



The western slope includes the basins of the Adour, the Garonne, 

 the Charcnte, the Loire, tho Vilaine, the Ornc, the Seine, the Sommc, 



