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III.THE eastern branch of the Rhone has undergone changes, as extensive and remarkable as those of the western, though differing in character. In the early centuries of our era the mouth of the river is put, in the maritime itinerary of the Antonines, at 16 Roman miles from the port of Fossæ Marianæ, and from thence it was 30 miles by river to Arles. These distances fix the mouth of the river close by the present termination of the Vieux Rhöne, or main channel during the seventeenth century, and this identification is borne out by the finding, in 1883, of an old boundary pillar with a Latin inscription, regarded as fifth or sixth century, which appears to show that it was set up near to the mouth of the Rhone. The place where it was found lies 3 km. west of the old river channel and 2 km. inland from the sea-face of the delta, and, whatever may be the exact age of this inscription, it must date from before the subsidence in the Dark Ages.
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OLDHAM, R. Problems of the Rhone Delta. Nature 116, 52–54 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116052a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/116052a0