RIVERS or SPAIN. 339 
Unit magnitude with itself, 
k^e ^fleams now take the name of the Giron ok, 
vJJ^y. hroad, and empty themselves into tlie Bay of 
X * '''iif roeans of this river, and a noble eanal 
hpt •^^‘^teafter be described, a junction has been 
the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic. 
THE SEINE. 
i'er 
""est 
bses 
near 
Dijon, in Burgundy, and, 'taking* 
,,, ce forms three islands on which tlie capital 
f Ohc of these, called I'lsle du Palais, 
Of the other parts of tlie ci.ty by seven 
w;,?''®- principal of which is the Pont-Neuf, 
*' '-''■’•'elve arches, and having a breadth, in- 
Vn'^Se 01 .sevcnty-two feet. The Seine, in 
‘•'Hit'll l\’ormandv. flows bv Rouen, and falk 
Br;,-\*®’^'k'h Normandy, flows by . 
Chanuc-1 near Havre. 
lUVliUS OE SPAIN. 
'V 
obouiuls with rivers, the number of which, 
’i’‘‘ smaller streams, ■ ■ — " 
lir'^Ce 
is said to amount to 
M ■ j‘"d tiliy. The principal of the.se are, tlie 
Galiicia ; the Douro, which has 
0 i ] ^‘'stile, in a part of the mountains of 
sous, rising in a mountain of New 
province it passes, the city of 
V" tivtf'y'*''"'''b'd on its banks, and being encompassed 
form of a horse sl'ioe. It bounds the 
Beira to the south, passes through 
'‘t'iq'*'* discharges itself into the Atlantic. 
1 ' I't tins river the Pormgviese capital, Lisbon, 
al[ 
.y yit great rivers wliich flow through Poetugae, 
^a,sn ^i’"‘‘‘'- d.'hus tiie Gu.sdiana issues 
f '‘'tk'*’ 5 deri', ing its source from an assemblage 
'^V'tr-,m'‘''.l distance from which it takes its course 
and '"“^‘’dains, concealing itself for nearly 
'ddiiK, suddenly re-appeariug ia a lenuy soil, 
'f t|h again amidst ixeds and rucks, which 
''fct giy^^siou to the mistaken idea of its losing 
^«d. I'liis i-iver separates the Spanish pro- 
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