Excerpt from The River Seine, Vol. 84 The Seine is the most important river of Frame, both on account of its being the highway for a flourishing inland trade, and in consequence of the extensive engineering works which have been carried out for its improvement. Its basin has also formed the subject of very careful hydrological investigations, for it was on the Seine that the systematic prediction of floods was first established, which has since been adopted for other French rivers. Like the Thames, it flows past the capital of the country, to which fact it owes a portion of its importance, though the centres of maritime trade to which it gives access are Situated lower down; like the Thames, also it has been made the receptacle for the sewage of the largest city on its banks, though recently it has been relieved of a portion of this nuisance by the establishment of extensive irrigation works on the plains of Gennevilliers (plate 2, Fig. Unlike the Thames, however, its estuary, being less favoured by nature, has afl'orded scope for important works of tidal-river improvement; and the distance of Paris from the sea has led to a more thorough extension of its inland navigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.