Crossword-Solution: ISTRES 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

There are to-day other canals, those of Les Alpines, of Langlade, and d'Istres, besides that of Craponne that assist in fertilising the waste.

Chamas and Berre for the fishing, until the whole region has become a Sunday meeting-place for the Marseillais who affect what they call “_le sport_.” [Illustration: _Istres_] On the western shore of the “Petite Mer,” on the edge of the dry, pebbly Crau, with a background of greenish-gray olive groves, is Istres, a _chef-lieu_ not recognized by many geographers out of France, and known by still fewer tourists.

Istres is in no way a remarkable place, and its inhabitants live mostly on carp taken from the Étang de l’Olivier, _moules_, and such _poissons de mer_ as find their way into the “Petite Mer.” Fish diet is not bad, but it palls on one if it is too constant, and the _moule_ is a poor substitute for the clam or oyster.

Istres makes salt and soda and not much else, but it is a town as characteristic of the surrounding country as one is likely to find.

Twilight seems to be the time of day when all Istres’s strange effects are heightened,--as it is on the Nile,--and it will take no great stretch of the imagination to picture the shores of the Étang as the banks of Egypt’s river.