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town of the Tarentaise, as the upper course of the Isere is named. Here it again turns N.W. as far as Albertville, where after receiving the Any (right) it once more takes a See also:

south-westerly direction, and near St See also:

PIERRE

Pierre d'Albigny receives its first important tributary, the Arc (See also:

LEFT

left), a See also:

WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild mountain stream flowing through the Maurienne and past the foot of the Mont Cenis Pass. A little way below, at Montmelian, it becomes officially navigable (for about See also:

HALF

half of its course), though it is but little used for that purpose owing to the irregular See also:

DEPTH

depth of its See also:

bed and the rapidity of its current. Very probably, in See also:

ancient days, it flowed from Montmelian N.W. and, after passing through or forming the See also:

Lac du See also:

BOURGET, PAUL CHARLES JOSEPH (1852– )

Bourget, joined the Rhone. But at See also:

PRESENT

present it continues from Montmelian in a south-westerly airection, flowing through the broad and fertile valley of the Graisivaudan, though receiving but a single affluent of any importance, the See also:

BREDA

Breda (left). At See also:

GRENOBLE

Grenoble, the most important town on its See also:

banks, it bends for a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short distance again N.W.

But just below that town it receives by far its most important affluent (left) the Drac, which itself drains the entire S. slope of the lofty See also:

SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow-clad See also:

DAUPHINE

Dauphine Alps, and which, 11 m. above Grenoble. had received the Romanche (right), a mountain stream which drains the entire central and N. portion of the same Alps. Hence the Drac is, at its junction with the Isere, a stream of nearly the same See also:

VOLUME

volume, while these two rivers, with the See also:

DURANCE (anc. Druentia)

Durance, drain practically the entire French slope of the Alpine chain, the basins of the Arve and of the See also:

Var forming the See also:

SOLE (Solea)

sole exceptions. A short distance below Moirans the Isere changes its direction for the last See also:

time and now flows S.W. past See also:

Romans before joining the Rhone on the left, as its See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal affluent after the See also:

SAONE

Saone and the Durance, between See also:

TOURNON

Tournon and See also:

VALENCE

Valence. The Isere is remarkable for the way in which it changes its direction, forming three See also:

GREAT

great loops of which the See also:

APEX

apex is respectively at Bourg St Maurice, Albertville and Moirans. For some way after its junction with the Rhone the See also:

grey troubled current of the Isere can be distinguished in the broad and peaceful stream of the Rhone. (W. A. B.

End of Article: ISERE [anc. Isara]

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