Allier
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ALLIER, the ancient Slaver, a river of France, which rises in the department of Lozere, among the Margerido mountains, a few miles east of the town of Mende, and, after traversing Haute Loire, Puys de Dome, and Allier, forms the boundary between Cher and Nievre, until it falls into the Loire four miles west of Nevers. Its length is 200 miles, for a considerable portion of which it is navigable, and its chief tributaries are the Dore and the Sioule.

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