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RHONE , a See also:department of See also:south-eastern See also:France, formed in whoever desires to experience a See also:northern See also:winter can spare 1793 from the eastern portion of the department of Rhone-et- himself a See also:journey to the See also:North Cape or See also:Siberia, and find it in See also:Loire, and comprising the old districts of Beaujolais, Lyonnais, his native Rhon . There is little vegetation, and the inhabitants See also:Franc-Lyonnais, Forez and a small portion of See also:Dauphine . Pop. eke out a scanty sustenance from the cultivation of potatoes and See also:flax . The highest inhabited See also:place is See also:Frankenhausen, lying at a height of 2350 ft. with 6383 inhabitants (1900) . The nearer (Vordere) Rhon, forming the northern See also:side of the range, is more attractive, with forests and deep and fertile valleys . See Leak, Zur geologischen Kenntnis der siidlichen Rhon (Wiirzburg, 1887) ; Scheidtweiler, See also:Die Rhon and ihre wirthschaftlhchen Verhaltnisse (See also:Frankfort, 1887); and See also:Daniel, Deutschland (5th ed., See also:Leipzig, 1878) . |
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