DIRECTIONS OF RIVERS. 
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leys of the Dranse, Valserine, Guiers, Ain, and Saone. 
In fact, the Saone receives the Ain, the Ain the 
Guiers, the Guiers the Valserine, the Valserine the 
Dranse, and the Dranse the Rhone. This is not a 
mere question of names, but also one of antiquity. 
The Saone, for instance, flowed past Lyons to the 
Mediterranean for ages before it was joined by the 
Rhone. In our nomenclature, however, the Rhone 
has swallowed up the others. This is the more 
curious from the fact that of the three great rivers 
which unite to form the lower Rhone, namely, the 
Saone, the Doubs, and the Rhone itself, the Saone 
