Stories of persons and places in Europe . PEASANT SISTINE CHAPEL, 352 Persons and Places in Europe. at Montenegro and joining with the Carpathians in the towering processionon the south, of Switzerland. And from the toe of the Italian boot comes theApennines in many graceful, waving curves, sweeping round the plain ofPiedmont, and towering up into the majestic heights of the Maratime Alpsthe palace of the mountain king. Of all his subjects, Mont Blanc can boast of none more graceful in outline,more beautiful in detail, or more interesting as the scenes of noted eventsthan this last
Stories of persons and places in Europe . PEASANT SISTINE CHAPEL, 352 Persons and Places in Europe. at Montenegro and joining with the Carpathians in the towering processionon the south, of Switzerland. And from the toe of the Italian boot comes theApennines in many graceful, waving curves, sweeping round the plain ofPiedmont, and towering up into the majestic heights of the Maratime Alpsthe palace of the mountain king. Of all his subjects, Mont Blanc can boast of none more graceful in outline,more beautiful in detail, or more interesting as the scenes of noted eventsthan this last in his train—the Apennines. Only a few bare rocks crop outabove its rich coat of vegetation throughout its entire course. Forests ofpine, oak and chestnut are ranged beneath each other from the summitdown to the valleys, and there the fig and olive flourish. From east to westbranches shoot off from the central range and hang in impending cliffs overthe sea. Between them are valleys so deep and dark that the people livem little worlds of their own, in utt
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