Ardèche

Now she had grown, and eked out a poor living by seeking for gold in the sands brought down by the Ardèche.

In the inundation of 1857, the Ardèche destroyed a stone bridge near La Beaume, which had been built about eighty years before.

The greatest depth of the basin of the Ardèche is seventy-five miles, but most of its tributaries have a much shorter course.

For every summer, the flocks out of all Ardèche are brought up to pasture on these grassy plateaux.

The author was a native of the town of Villeneuve du Berg, in the present department of Ardèche.