Rhône, a department of France lying wholly within the western side of the Saône and Rhône basin, hilly and fruitful; wine is produced in large quantities; has an active industrial population; capital, Lyons.
Population (circa 1900) given as 807,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rhône * Rhumb Line