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486 LIFE.
ations.. Moreover, this means of reclaiming low, salt tracts on the shores
of the Mediterranean is no longer a matter of mere speculation, as it has
already been put in practice. Not far from Saint-Gilles, on the smaller
branch ofthe Rhone, certain tracts have been purified from the salt which
they contained and converted into corn-fields. More recently immense
tracts of land near Frontignan, once perfectly useless, have been gradually purified by the little stream, Roubine de la Vie, which supplies pure
water by a lateral cutting, and then lower down in its course receives
the drainage water charged with saline matter. According to M. Du-
pouchel, the inventor of this- system of purifying the soil, it would be
possible to deal thus with a great part of the south coast of France, and
to create a complete border of magnificent polders, covering a surface of
more than 250,000 acres, and representing an agricultural value of from
twenty to thirty millions of pounds.* And what, even, would such a reclamation as this be, when compared with those which may some day be
made in all the countries which border on the sea and on salt lakes ?
* Annales des Ponts et Chaussees, vol. ii., 1864.
| Title | The ocean, atmosphere, and life |
| Creator | Reclus, Elisée |
| Publisher | Harper |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1873 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000535 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 486 LIFE. ations.. Moreover, this means of reclaiming low, salt tracts on the shores of the Mediterranean is no longer a matter of mere speculation, as it has already been put in practice. Not far from Saint-Gilles, on the smaller branch ofthe Rhone, certain tracts have been purified from the salt which they contained and converted into corn-fields. More recently immense tracts of land near Frontignan, once perfectly useless, have been gradually purified by the little stream, Roubine de la Vie, which supplies pure water by a lateral cutting, and then lower down in its course receives the drainage water charged with saline matter. According to M. Du- pouchel, the inventor of this- system of purifying the soil, it would be possible to deal thus with a great part of the south coast of France, and to create a complete border of magnificent polders, covering a surface of more than 250,000 acres, and representing an agricultural value of from twenty to thirty millions of pounds.* And what, even, would such a reclamation as this be, when compared with those which may some day be made in all the countries which border on the sea and on salt lakes ? * Annales des Ponts et Chaussees, vol. ii., 1864. |
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