What is MENISCUS? The departure from a flat surface where a liquid meets a solid, due to surface tension. The effect can be seen clearly through the wall of a glass tube. The surface of water in air rises up the wall of the tube, while that of mercury is depressed, SIGHT-FEED LUBRICATOR.
An abandoned mud-covered scooter is found during the draining of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, France Charles Platiau/Reuters
Names of Rivers Flowing Through Paris The main river, is of course the Seine. All others have been canalised and subsumed in the sewer system. These included, on the Left Bank, the Bievre, and on the right bank, the Chaussee d'Antim. There are also canals, of course-the Canal saint-Martin and the Canal de l'Ourcq-the Ourcq being another river thus transformed.