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ARAR

Volume 2 · 50 words · 1797 Edition

(Cæsar, Strabo); Araris, (Dio Cassius); Saxonia, (Ammian): A river of Celtic Gaul, now the Saône; which rises out of mount Vogefus on the confines of Lorraine, runs through the Franche Comté and Burgundy, and below Lyons falls into the Rhone. It is so incredibly slow, that the eye cannot distinguish