Durance, an unnavigable river of SE. France, rises in the department of the Hautes-Alpes, and joins the Rhone 3 miles below Avignon, after a course of 225 miles. An aqueduct from it, 51 miles long, supplies Marseilles with water, and irrigates 25,000 acres, otherwise parched.
Durance
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 128
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