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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 854 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IRUN , a frontier See also:

town of See also:northern See also:Spain, in the See also:province of Guipflzcoa, on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river Bidassoa, opposite the See also:French See also:village of Hendaye. Pop. (rgoo) 9012, See also:Iron is the northern See also:terminus of the See also:Spanish Northern railway, and a " The forests alone cannot fully regulate and conserve the See also:waters of the arid regions. See also:Great storage See also:works are necessary to equalize the flow of the streams and to See also:save the See also:flood waters. Their construction has been conclusively shown to be an undertaking too vast for private effort. Nor can it he best accomplished by the individual states acting alone. " Far-reaching interstate problems are involved, and the re-See also:sources of single states would often be inadequate. It is properly a See also:national See also:function, at least in some of its features.. It is as right for the National See also:Government to make the streams and See also:rivers of the arid regions useful by See also:engineering works for See also:water storage, as to make useful the rivers and harbours of the humid regions by engineering works of another See also:kind. The storing of the floods in reservoirs at the headquarters of our rivers is but an enlargement of our See also:present policy thriving See also:industrial town, with ironworks, tan-yards, See also:potteries and See also:paper See also:mills. Its See also:principal buildings are the See also:fine See also:Renaissance See also:parish See also:church and the fortress-like 17th-See also:century town See also:hall. It derives its prosperity from the fact that it is the most important See also:custom-See also:house in Spain for the overland See also:trade with the See also:rest of See also:Europe.

Irun is also on the See also:

chief See also:highway for travellers and mails. It is the terminus of some important narrow-See also:gauge See also:mining See also:railways and See also:steam tramways, which See also:place it in communication with the mining districts of Guipffzcoa and See also:Navarre, and with the valuable See also:oak, See also:pine and See also:beech forests of both provinces. There are hot See also:mineral springs in the town.

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