Identifier: italyfromalpstom00stie (find matches)
Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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far as theblue waves of the Faro di Messina, into which they dive to reappear in the Trinacrianislands, and finally to end their course at Trapani. The three highest peaks of the Gran Sasso rise like pyramids into the air. Theprincipal of them is Monte Corno, next to that Monte Brancastello, and, lastly, Monte diFano Trojano. The various summits show like a camp of Titans, and the enemy standsopposite on the Majella in the shape of the grand Monte Amaro, who would fain contestwith Monte Corno the honour of being the highest in Italy. Somewhat lower thanthese are the Morrone, Monte Alto, the Scalata, and the Rocca di Lipareto. From 344 ITAL Y. the pyramid of the Gran Sasso (which is very seldom climbed), you may behold all thekingdoms of this world and the glory thereof. And if the enthusiastic traveller breaksout into exclamations of surprise and delight when he catches a glimpse through the figsand olives of the Sorrento hills, of a blue gulf of waters on either side of him, here he
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BOY OF THE ABRUZZI. beholds with a sensation almost of awe, the two mighty seas which rise to meet thesinking sky in the east and in the west. Yonder, over the blue waves of the TyrrheneSea, glide sails from the Campanian, Sicilian, Gallic, and Iberian shores ; Grecian andOriental barks plough the Adriatic. Through the lower hills there wind green valleys,and rivers, and roads toward the coast or the interior. At our feet, where now white towns are glittering, once stood the fortresses of the FROM THE GRAN SASSO D*ITALIA TO VESUVIUS. 345 Samnite Confederation which defied even Rome. As far as our eye can reach stretchedthe regions of the Marsii, the Picentii, and the Hirpinii, and of various other tribes.Their once mighty cities, such as Bovianum, lie somewhere in the green wilderness below,mere heaps of grassy ruin. The Capitoline she-wolf has devoured their inhabitants : and

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