Seine, the smallest but most populous department of France, entirely surrounded by the department of Seine-et-Oise; Paris and its adjacent villages cover a considerable portion of the area; presents a richly wooded, undulating surface, traversed by the Seine in a NW. direction.
Population (circa 1900) given as 3,142,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Seine * Seine-et-Marne