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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 300 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ILL , a See also:

river of See also:Germany, entirely within the imperial territory of See also:Alsace-See also:Lorraine. It rises on a See also:north foothill of the See also:Jura, S.W. of See also:Basel, and flows N.N.E. parallel with the See also:Rhine, which it enters from the See also:left, 9 M. below See also:Strassburg. Its course lies for the most See also:part through See also:low meadowland; and the stream, which is 123 M. See also:long, receives numerous small affluents, which pour out of the See also:short narrow valleys of the See also:Vosges. It is navigable from Ladhof near See also:Colmar to its confluence with the Rhine, a distance of 59 M. It is on this river, and not on the Rhine, that the See also:principal towns of Upper Alsace are situated, e.g. See also:Mulhausen, Colmarl, See also:Schlettstadt and Strassburg. The Ill feeds two important canals, the Rhine-See also:Marne See also:canal and the Rhine-See also:Rhone canal, both starting from the neighbourhood of Strassburg.

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