Seine-Inférieure, a maritime department of North-West France, in Normandy, facing the English Channel; is for the most part a fertile plain, watered by the Seine and smaller streams, and diversified by fine woods and the hills of Caux; is a fruit and cider producing district; has flourishing manufactures. Rouen is the capital, and Havre and Dieppe are important trading centres.
Population (circa 1900) given as 839,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Seine-et-Oise * Selborne, Roundell Palmer, Earl of