Advanced Geography . Pass of St. Bernard. Italian Piper. Rome, the most noted of ancient cities,stands on the banks of the Tiber, a smallriver flowing from the Apennines in middle Italy. Aboutone third of the words in our language are derived fromLatin, — the language of the ancient Romans. The beautiful Terni falls, shown in the picture on page76, are about 70 miles north of Borne. The water inone part of the falls leaps down 330 feet. On the northeastslope of the Apen-nines, not far fromthe source of theTiber, lies the smallfree state of San Ma-rino. The state coversonly thirty-two squaremil
Advanced Geography . Pass of St. Bernard. Italian Piper. Rome, the most noted of ancient cities,stands on the banks of the Tiber, a smallriver flowing from the Apennines in middle Italy. Aboutone third of the words in our language are derived fromLatin, — the language of the ancient Romans. The beautiful Terni falls, shown in the picture on page76, are about 70 miles north of Borne. The water inone part of the falls leaps down 330 feet. On the northeastslope of the Apen-nines, not far fromthe source of theTiber, lies the smallfree state of San Ma-rino. The state coversonly thirty-two squaremiles and has a popu-lation of about 8000; 1 The eruption tookplace in 79 Thecities of Pompeii, Her-culaneum and Stabiaewere buried. 2 The eggs of the silkworm were first carried from China to Europeabout 550 , — nearly five centuries after the great Excavations in Pompeii. 80 THE BALKAN PENINSULA. but small as it is, San Marino is a very old state. Most of thepeople in this small state tend cattle or raise wine grapes. The leaning tower shown in the picture is in Pisa, a city on theArno river, Italy. Two thousand years ago, Pisa was only twomiles from the mouth of theArno; now it is six miles, forthe river has meanwhile builtits delta out into the sea. The famous leaning tower is183 feet high, and it leans 13feet from an upright walls of the tower are verythick and are made of marble.
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