BIENNE, LAKE OF

BIENNE, LAKE OF
   in the Swiss canton of Berne; the Aar is led into it when in flood, so as to prevent inundation below; on the shores of it are remains of lake-dwellings, and an island in it, St. Pierre, the retreat of Rousseau in 1765.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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