Note 2 — Chapter I · THE DESERT IN FRANCE:—THE LANDES OF BRITTANY.
W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams translation
The Jura chain is an outlier of the great Alpine system, and situated on the border of Switzerland; the Vosges separate the valley of the Rhine from that of the Moselle (greatest elevation, 469 feet); and the Cevennes that of the Loire from the basin of the Rhone (greatest elevation, 5794 feet).