Seine

Seine. 1. The smallest, but most populous, department or France, has an area of 183 square miles, entirely surrounded by Seine-et-Oise, one-sixth being occnpied by the city of Paris. The surface is mostly level, nowhere exceeding an elevation of 500 feet, and the soil is poor, but with artlficial manure and spade-culture yields abundance of vegetables and fruit. The. Marne, Bievre, and Rouillon drain into the Seine within its limits. Besides the capital, it contains St. Denis, Sceaux, Montreuil, Vincennes, Boulogne, Pantin, Aubervilliers, Varves, Puteanx, Ivry, Clichy, and Choisy-le-Roi.

2. A river of France, rising in the plateau of Langres, Cote d'Or, eighteen miles N.W. of Dijon, and flowing, with a winding course of 482 miles, into the English Channel at Havre. It can be navigated by vessels of 20-feet draught to Rouen, and by barges as far as Bar, 395 miles from the mouth. Its chief tributaries are - on the right, the Aube, Marne, and Oise; on the left, the Yonne, Loing, Essene, and Eure.