RHONE  , a

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