![]() ![]() Nations have peopled it at different times, the Aborigines, Its inhabitants have been often changed, and different To Circeii 11, a distance of fifty miles: so slender at the beginning were the roots from which this our Empire sprang. Latium 10 has preserved its original limits, from the Tiber Of religion than a source of devastation. Us, and in its increase to be considered more as a promoter To be looked upon 9 as pregnant with prophetic warnings to In such case, however, the Tiber is rather Is more liable to be swollen than that which runs through Its waters frequently rise with great suddenness, and no part In on either side but still, no resistance does it offer, although River more circumscribed than it, so close are its banks shut Produce of all parts of the earth, and peopled and embellishedĪlong its banks with more villas than nearly all the other Up from the Italian sea a most tranquil dispenser of the It becomes navigable by vessels of any burden which may come Latium at the back it is also increased by the numerousĪqueducts and springs which are conveyed to the City. Is swollen by two and forty streams, particularly the Nar 8Īnd the Anio, which last is also navigable and shuts in That of Crustuminum, and afterwards that of the Fidenatesīelow its union with the Glanis from Arretinum the Tiber Miles from the city, separating the territory of Veii from The Sabini 7, and then, at a distance of less than sixteen It winds along for aĬourse of 150 miles, passing not far from Tifernum 4, Perusia,Īnd Ocriculum 5, and dividing Etruria from the Umbri 6 and It for which purpose it is found necessary to collect the waterįor nine days, unless there should happen to be a fall of rain.Īnd even then, the Tiber, by reason of its rugged and unevenĬhannel, is really more suitable for navigation by rafts thanīy vessels, for any great distance. Same manner as the Timia 3 and the Glanis, which flow into In which the water is dammed up and then discharged, in the It is at first small, and only navigable by means of sluices, The chain of the Apennines, in the territory of the Arretini. ![]() The Tiber or Tiberis, formerly called Thybris, and previously Albula 2, flows down from nearly the central part of 9.-THE FIRST REGION OF ITALY 1 THE TIBER ROME. 30.-ISLANDS OF THE IONIAN SEA AND THE ADRIATIC.ĬHAP. (20.)-THE ALPS, AND THE ALPINE NATIONS.ĬHAP. (19.)-ISTRIA, ITS PEOPLE AND LOCALITY.ĬHAP. (17.)-THE ELEVENTH REGION OF ITALY ITALIA TRANSPAIDANA.ĬHAP. (15.)-THE EIGHTH REGION OF ITALY THE PADUS.ĬHAP. ![]() (10.)-MAGNA GRÆCIA, BEGINNING AT LOCRI.ĬHAP. 11.-SIXTY-FOUR ISLANDS, AMONG WHICH ARE THE BALEARES.ĬHAP. (4.)-OF THE PROVINCE OF GALLIA NARBONENSIS.ĬHAP. (1.)-THE BOUNDARIES AND GULFS OF EUROPE FIRST SET FORTH IN A GENERAL WAY.ĬHAP. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE AQUATIC PRODUCTIONĬHAP. PLANTS, CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO PARTICULARĪ DESCRIPTION OF PLANTS, AND OF THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THEM. THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE FOREST TREES.Ī CONTINUATION OF THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE CULTIVATED TREES. THE NATURE AND CULTIVATION OF FLAX, AND ANĪN ACCOUNT OF FLOWERS. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CULTIVATED TREES.īOOK XVIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FOREST TREES.īOOK XVII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FRUIT-TREES.īOOK XVI. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FRUIT TREES.īOOK XV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF EXOTIC TREES, AND ANīOOK XIV. THE NATURE OF THE TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS.īOOK XIII. MAN, HIS BIRTH, HIS ORGANIZATION, AND THE INVENTION OF THE ARTS.īOOK VIII. HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST ORĪN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST OR FORMERLY EXISTED.īOOK VI. AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST OR FORMERLY EXISTED.īOOK IV. AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD AND THE ELEMENTS.īOOK III.
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