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

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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 eruption.

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