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Art/Literary - Agriculture / Description of fertilizing plains North of Paris in the 19th century | | French term or phrase: Exhaussée | | "C'est par ces canaux dont les paysans peuvent modérer l'écoulement, que les matières solides des égouts de Paris, séparées des liquides, à Asnières, puis exhaussées par des machines à vapeur, s'épanchent dans la plaine." |
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| | conveyed (north) | Explanation:
I know nothing about steam engines, but could it be referring to how the matter gets from Asnieres to the northern plains? |
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