See also:

• ISERE
• ISERE [anc. Isara]

ISERE [anc. Isara]  , one of the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France as well as of those flowing down on the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of the Alpine See also:

• CHAIN (through the O. Fr. citable, chcene, &c., from Lat. catena)

chain . Its See also:

• TOTAL

total length from its source to its junction with the See also:

• RHONE
• RHONE (Fr. Rhone, Lat. Rhodanus)

Rhone is about 1So m., during which it descends a height of about 7550 ft . Its drainage See also:

• AREA

area is about 4725 sq. m . It flows through the departments of See also:

• SAVOIE

Savoie, See also:

• ISERE
• ISERE [anc. Isara]

Isere and See also:

• DROME

Drome . This See also:

• RIVER

river rises in the Galise glaciers in the French Graian See also:

• ALPS

Alps and flows, as a See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain torrent, through a narrow valley past See also:

• TIGNES, MARQUIS AND

Tignes in a See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north-See also:

• WESTERLY

westerly direction to Bourg St See also:

• MAURICE (1521–1553)
• MAURICE (MAURICIUS FLAVIUS TIBERIUS) (c. 539–602)
• MAURICE [or MAURITIUS], ST (d. c. 286)
• MAURICE, JOHN FREDERICK DENISON (1805-1872)

Maurice, at the western See also:

• FOOT

foot of the Little St See also:

• BERNARD, CHARLES DE
• BERNARD, CLAUDE (1813-1878)
• BERNARD, JACQUES (1658--1718)
• BERNARD, MOUNTAGUE (1S2o—1882)
• BERNARD, SAINT
• BERNARD, SAINT (Iogo-1153)
• BERNARD, SIMON (1779—1839)
• BERNARD, SIR THOMAS, BART

Bernard Pass . It now bends S.W., as far as Moutiers, the chief See also:

• TOWN

town of the Tarentaise, as the upper course of the Isere is named . Here it again turns N.W. as far as Albertville, where after receiving the Any (right) it once more takes a See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-westerly direction, and near St See also:

• PIERRE

Pierre d'Albigny receives its first important tributary, the Arc (See also:

• LEFT

left), a See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild mountain stream flowing through the Maurienne and past the foot of the Mont Cenis Pass . A little way below, at Montmelian, it becomes officially navigable (for about See also:

• HALF

half of its course), though it is but little used for that purpose owing to the irregular See also:

• DEPTH

depth of its See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed and the rapidity of its current . Very probably, in See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient days, it flowed from Montmelian N.W. and, after passing through or forming the See also:

• LAC

Lac du See also:

• BOURGET, PAUL CHARLES JOSEPH (1852– )

Bourget, joined the Rhone . But at See also:

• PRESENT

present it continues from Montmelian in a south-westerly airection, flowing through the broad and fertile valley of the Graisivaudan, though receiving but a single affluent of any importance, the See also:

• BREDA

Breda (left) . At See also:

• GRENOBLE

Grenoble, the most important town on its See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks, it bends for a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short distance again N.W . But just below that town it receives by far its most important affluent (left) the Drac, which itself drains the entire S. slope of the lofty See also:

• SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow-clad See also:

• DAUPHINE

Dauphine Alps, and which, 11 m. above Grenoble. had received the Romanche (right), a mountain stream which drains the entire central and N. portion of the same Alps .

Hence the Drac is, at its junction with the Isere, a stream of nearly the same See also:

• VOLUME

volume, while these two rivers, with the See also:

• DURANCE (anc. Druentia)

Durance, drain practically the entire French slope of the Alpine chain, the basins of the Arve and of the See also:

• VAR

Var forming the See also:

• SOLE (Solea)

sole exceptions . A short distance below Moirans the Isere changes its direction for the last See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time and now flows S.W. past See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans before joining the Rhone on the left, as its See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal affluent after the See also:

• SAONE

Saone and the Durance, between See also:

• TOURNON

Tournon and See also:

• VALENCE

Valence . The Isere is remarkable for the way in which it changes its direction, forming three See also:

• GREAT

great loops of which the See also:

• APEX

apex is respectively at Bourg St Maurice, Albertville and Moirans . For some way after its junction with the Rhone the See also:

• GREY, CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL (1764-1845)
• GREY, HENRY GREY, 3RD EARL (1802-1894)
• GREY, LADY JANE (1537-1554)
• GREY, SIR EDWARD
• GREY, SIR GEORGE (1812–1898)

grey troubled current of the Isere can be distinguished in the broad and peaceful stream of the Rhone . (W . A . B .