Drance
The River Drance, a tributary of the Rhône
in Switzerland near Evian.
The Shelleys passed the Drance during their Swiss excursion; it is
described in Letter 6 of
A History of a Six Weeks' Tour:
As soon as we had passed the opposite promontory, we saw the river
Drance, which descends from between a chasm in the mountains, and makes a
plain near the lake, intersected by its divided streams. Thousands of
besolets, beautiful water-birds, like sea-gulls, but smaller, with
purple on their backs, take their station on the shallows, where its
waters mingle with the lake.
