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LOT (Lat. Oltis)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 16 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOT (See also:Lat. Oltis) , a See also:river of See also:southern See also:France flowing westward across the central See also:plateau, through the departments of See also:Lozere, See also:Aveyron, Lot and Lot-et-See also:Garonne. Its length is about 30o m., the See also:area of its See also:basin 4444 sq. m. The river rises in the See also:Cevennes on the Mont du Goulet at a height of 4918 ft. about 15 M. E. of See also:Mende, past which it flows. Its upper course lies through See also:gorges between the Causse of Mende and Aubrac Mountains on the See also:north and the tablelands (See also:causses) of Sauveterre, Severac and Comtal on the See also:south. Thence its sinuous course crosses the plateau of See also:Quercy and entering a wider fertile See also:plain flows into the Garonne at See also:Aiguillon between See also:Agen and See also:Marmande. Its largest tributary, the Truyere, rises in the Margeride mountains and after a circuitous course joins it on the right at Entraygues (See also:department of Aveyron), its affluence more than ' The See also:district is thus regarded as the See also:place where the See also:Hebrews, on the one See also:side, and the Moabites and See also:Ammonites, on the other, commence their See also:independent See also:history. Whilst the latter See also:settle across the See also:Jordan, See also:Abraham moves down south to See also:Hebron. 2 Tradition points to the See also:Jebel Usdum (cp. the name Sodom) at the S.W. end of the Dead See also:Sea. It consists almost entirely of pure crystallized See also:salt with pillars and pinnacles such as might have given rise to the See also:story (see See also:Driver, See also:Genesis, p. 201; and cf. also See also:Palestine Explor.

Fund, Quart. Statements, 1871, p. i6, 1885, p. 20; See also:

Conder, Syrian See also:Stone-See also:lore, p. 279 seq.). Jesus cites the story of Lot and his wife to illustrate the sudden coming of the !ingdom of See also:God (See also:Luke xvii. 28-32). The history of the See also:interpretation of the See also:legend by the See also:early and See also:medieval See also:church down to the era of rational and scientific investigation will be found in A. D. See also:White, Warfare of See also:Science with See also:Theology, ii. ch. xviii. doubling the See also:volume of the river. See also:Lower down it receives the Dourdou de Bozouls (or du See also:Nord) on the See also:left and on the right the Cele above See also:Cahors (department of Lot), which is situated on a See also:peninsula skirted by one of the river's many windings. See also:Villeneuve-sur-Lot (department of Lot-et-Garonne) is the only See also:town of any importance between this point and its mouth.

The Lot is canalized between Bouquies, above which there is no See also:

navigation, and the Garonne (16o m.).

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