Identifier: americanauniver08beac (find matches)
Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ITALY Liven/a, and Tagliamento, which arc of muchless importance, have their basins in Venetia orthe northeastern part of Italy, and all fall, likethe Po and the Adige, into the Gulf of Venice.In tin- southern part of Italy, the peninsula of which it consists is not only narrow in itself,lint is divided by the central chain of the Apen-nines into two watersheds, each of which liesso near the shore as to leave no room for theformation of large rivers. If the streams de-scend directly front the mountains to the shore,their course is necessarily so short as to givethe character of mere torrents, often rising sud-denly in their beds, and again as suddenly re-tiring within them. It sometimes happens,however, that the mountains, in ramifying, formparallel ridges, and thus give rise to longitudinalvalleys, by pursuing which the course of therivers is greatly lengthened, and their volumeof course augmented. In this way the Italianpeninsula, notwithstanding its narrowness, hasobtained the Arno

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