Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . Book bnnl ROM K. Part I.—The KixXxDoai. CHAPTER LII.—THE IROM the Alps to CapeBruttium, there lies It-aly. The great midmostpeninsula of SouthernEurope, dropping fromthe north into the CentralMediterranean, stretchesbetween the parallels 46° 30 an
Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . Book bnnl ROM K. Part I.—The KixXxDoai. CHAPTER LII.—THE IROM the Alps to CapeBruttium, there lies It-aly. The great midmostpeninsula of SouthernEurope, dropping fromthe north into the CentralMediterranean, stretchesbetween the parallels 46° 30 and 38° of northlatitude, and the meridians 6° 35 and 18° 30east from Greenwich. The length of the pen-insula, from the Rhsetian Aljis to the Strait ofMessina, is six hundred and sixty miles, andthe greatest breadth of the Italian lerj, measuredin the latitude of Tuscany, is one hundred andseventy miles. The area of the peninsulaproper is 94,160 square miles, and of the same,inclusive of Sardinia and Sicily, 114,850 squaremiles. The length of the Italian coast line is a littlemore than two thousand miles, and the same isthroughout its whole extent regular and well-defined. It is thus in a remarkable mannerdiscriminated from the coasts of Greece, thelatter being in every part broken into bays md inlets. From the shores of Italy, except the died spur and livd and to the extreme south, not a single
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