. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . of theA])eunines have the capricious Cdllei-I ion, anil wliicli l)oais tho liead ofa bcardiil IJaoclms, belongs 1o Adriaon till borders of tlie Po, or to that ofrioemini. The character of the thveiletters on this piece hat (for lladria),shows that it cannot be earlier than thethird century before our era. The asrh alioniau pound, that is exactly twelveounces, or WS .«criiples, wlience thename as libralis. The real weight,however, on the average, is not morethan ten ounces. Tlie Romans have,wi
. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . of theA])eunines have the capricious Cdllei-I ion, anil wliicli l)oais tho liead ofa bcardiil IJaoclms, belongs 1o Adriaon till borders of tlie Po, or to that ofrioemini. The character of the thveiletters on this piece hat (for lladria),shows that it cannot be earlier than thethird century before our era. The asrh alioniau pound, that is exactly twelveounces, or WS .«criiples, wlience thename as libralis. The real weight,however, on the average, is not morethan ten ounces. Tlie Romans have,wilhoul doulit, kept to tliis usagebiHause ten ounces of bronze were worth_ in Italy a scruple of silver or -i- of a silver pound. Mnmniseus liixf. (if •liorc. lloman Vnmnje. * The Adige, 250 miles in length,the Bacchiglione 02, tin- Hrenta llie nioutlis (jf the Piave IJi), the Tagliamento 33, theLsonzo 50. GcavT dwi Ei^rd ^jsa fr??i |);n» liirmt. .Scale 200XXX) Present slate of coast to the goutlthe TliK GEOGKAniY OF ITALY. XXIU character of torrents: -wide aud rapid in spring-time, they dry upin Slimmer, and are at all times abnost useless for Buthow beautifid and pictm-esque is the scenery along the banks oftheii- sti-eams, and in the valleys where their tributaries descend IThe waterfalls of Tivoli, the most charming of sights, make adelightful contrast to the ?wild grandem- of the Eoman campagua;and near Terni, at the Cascade delle Marmore, the Yelino falls intothe Xera from a vertical height of 540 feet, then rushes incataracts over the huge boulders which it has brought do\Yn fi-omthe mountaiu. All the lakes of UppLr Italy are, like those of S^vitzerland,hollow valleys (Lake !Maggiore, 39 square miles; Como, 3-5; Iseo,14; Garda, 34) where the streams fi-om the moimtains haveaccumulated till they have found iu the belt of rucks and landthe depression whence they have made theii escape and given riseto rivers. Those of the piaiiusula,
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