A system of modern geography : for schools, academies, and families : designed to answer the twofold purpose of a correct guide to the student, and of a geographical reading book . rious and , like Switzerland, is rugged and mountainous. Its inha-bitants are diligent, sober, economical, and in comfortable cir-cumstances. The capital of the Sardinian kingdom is Turin. The otherchief towns are Genoa, Nice, Cagliari. Turin is situated about seven miles from the foot of the Alps,on the road from France to Italy. It is magnificent and beauti-ful in its appearance, and is distingui
A system of modern geography : for schools, academies, and families : designed to answer the twofold purpose of a correct guide to the student, and of a geographical reading book . rious and , like Switzerland, is rugged and mountainous. Its inha-bitants are diligent, sober, economical, and in comfortable cir-cumstances. The capital of the Sardinian kingdom is Turin. The otherchief towns are Genoa, Nice, Cagliari. Turin is situated about seven miles from the foot of the Alps,on the road from France to Italy. It is magnificent and beauti-ful in its appearance, and is distinguished for its manufacturesand trade in silk. Population 122,000. Genoa has long beencelebrated for its commerce, and especially in silk, damasks,and velvets. Population 80,000. The island of Sardinia is a large and generally fertile island,but miserably cultivated. The people in the maritime parts,resemble the Italians; but those in the interior, who are chieflyshepherds, are a lawless and half barbarous race, dressed insheep skins and goat skins, and bearing arms as a defenceagainst the robbers of the mountains. Cagliari is the capital of this island. It has a population of. View of the Rialto at Italy, or the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, liesnorth of the Po. It is the most fruitful portion of Italy, and , 17$ EUROPEAN TURKET. highly cultivated, and has thence been called the garden of Eu-rope. Population more than four millions. The principal townsare Venice, Mantua, Verona, and Milan. Venice, the capital, is a large city, built upon a multitude ofsmall islands in the gulf of Venice. Its manufactures and com-merce are in a declining state. Population 113,000. Milan isa manufacturing and commercial city. Population 140, is a very ancient town, celebrated as the birth-place ofVirgil. The Grand Duchy of Tuscany is bounded north and east bythe Papal states, south and west by the Mediterranean. It em-braces a region rich and productive, thickly settled by an
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