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Title: The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893, ed
Subjects: Geography, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ing purposes. And when, under these fosteringinfluences, the population of Greece outgrew the narrow limits ofthe land, there was no difflculty in finding settlements, which, underequally favourable circumstances, gave back power and wealth tothe mother country : in one direction Sicily and Southern Italy, inanother the northern coast of Africa, were near at hand and open tocolonization, while in a third the tide flowed back to the coast ofAsia Minor, and thence ramified to the distant shores of theEuxine. • § 3. The mountain chains of Greece are marked with great dis- 350 XOETHEEIV GEEECE. Book (V tiuctiiess. AVe liave already had occasion to notice tlie series ofmountains whicli divide Greece from Macedonia. Lacmon is tlieconnecting link between tlie Cambunii Montes on the E., Pindus inthe S., Tymplie in the T\., and the mountains of Macedonia in theN. The Cambunii Montes form the northern limits of Thessaly, andterminate in the far-famed heights of Olympus, near the ^Ega?an Sea.
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3Iap of Greece, sliovring the direction of the jloitntain Eaiiges. i 1. Lncmon. 2. Pindus. 3. Cambunii Mte 4. Olympv.s, 5. Cfsa. 6. Pelion.Othrys. 3. CEta. 9. Parnassus.10. Helicon.IJ. Citha?ron. 12. Geraneus. 13. Cyllene. 1-i. Erymanthus. 15. Taygetus. 16. Parnon. iT- Partlienius. 18. Cythera. 19. Euboea. 20. River Peneus. 21. River Cephissus.£2. River Achelous. 23. River Alpheus. 24. River Eurotas. 25. Sinus Pagrnsaeus. 26. Sinus Maliacus.2/. Siuus Saronicus.23. Sinus Argolicus.2 5. Sinus Cyparissus. 30. Sinus Cdrinthiacus. 31. Sinus Ambracius. Chap. XIX. MOUXTAIXS—PJVERS. 351 Tymphe is continued westward in the ranges which bound Epiruson the X., and which terminate in tlie striking promontory ofAcro-ceraunia on the shores of the Ionian Sea. Pindus may betermed the hiclhone of Greece ; it emanates from the northernrange just mid-Avay hetween the ^ga^an and Ionian Seas in about40° N. kt., and descends in an unbroken course towards the S.E.for sixty miles, to about 39°, where it

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