Arve Arve The river Arve () flows for approximately 100 km (62 miles) through France, in the "département" of Haute-Savoie, and (for a few kilometers) in Switzerland. It is a left tributary of the Rhône. Rising in the northern side of the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps, close to the Swiss border, it receives water from the many glaciers of the Chamonix valley (mainly the Mer de Glace) before flowing north-west into the Rhône on the west side of Geneva, where its much higher level of silt brings forth a striking contrast between the two rivers. The Arve flows through
Geography of Dorset the Channel at Charmouth. The River Brit rises north of Beaminster, flows south through Bridport and enters the Channel at West Bay. Near the village of Burton Bradstock, about 1 mile east of the mouth of the Brit, is the terminus of the small River Bride; this rises at Bridehead in the hills between Dorchester and Bridport, and flows westwards for about seven miles "before sinking into the shingle" of Chesil Beach. Further east along the coast is the River Wey, which flows into Radipole Lake in Weymouth, and enters the Channel through Weymouth Harbour. Dorset has no large freshwater