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BIENNE, LAKE OF, or BIELERSEE

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 921 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BIENNE, LAKE OF, or BIELERSEE  , a lake in
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Switzerland, S.W. of the
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town of Bienne, and extending along the
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southern
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foot of the Jura range . It is 71 M. in length, 21 M. broad and 249 ft. in
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depth, while its
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surface is 1424 ft. above the sea-level, and its
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area 16 sq. m . In it is the Ile de St
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Pierre, where Rousseau resided for a short time in 1765 . Many traces of lake-dwellings have been discovered on the shores of the lake . It receives the
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river Suze or Scheuss at its north-east end, while the Hagneck canal leads the waters of the
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Aar into the lake, as that of Nidau conducts them out again . At the south-western end the river Thiele or Zihl flows into this lake from that of Neuchatel . (W . A . B .

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