. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. and Epims ; onthe E. by the Achelous, separai:ing it from .Etolia ; and on the AY. 376 ACAENANIA. Book IV. and by the Ionian Sea. In form it resembles a triangle, theapex pointing to the S. The sea-coast is iiTegnlar and hned vrLthislands, which render navigation dangerous. The interior is traversed by mountain ranges ofmoderate height, havinga general south-easterlydirection, and coveredwith forests. The soilis fertile, especially theplains about the lowercourse of the Achelouswliich sust
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. and Epims ; onthe E. by the Achelous, separai:ing it from .Etolia ; and on the AY. 376 ACAENANIA. Book IV. and by the Ionian Sea. In form it resembles a triangle, theapex pointing to the S. The sea-coast is iiTegnlar and hned vrLthislands, which render navigation dangerous. The interior is traversed by mountain ranges ofmoderate height, havinga general south-easterlydirection, and coveredwith forests. The soilis fertile, especially theplains about the lowercourse of the Achelouswliich sustained largequantities of sheep andcattle; its resources were not, however, much improved by its in-habitants. § 2. Its physical features were but imperfectly known to theancients. Xone of the mountains received special names, and onlytwo of the promontories, viz. Actium, La Punta, at the entranceof the Ambracian Gulf, which we have already noticed in connexionvdtli Xicopolis, and Critliote on the W. coast. The chief river is theAchelous, Asjyropotamo, which attains a width of about f of a mile.
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