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Ch. V.
THROUGH ITALY.
123
which Annibal took in his passage was a subject
of doubt and controversy even in Titus Livius’s
time, and as this historian’s own opinion on the
subject is far from being very clear, the traveller
is at liberty to indulge his own conjectures, and
may, without rebelling against the authority of
history, suppose that the Carthaginian general
entered Italy by the very road which we are now
treading, and that he took his first view of its
glories from the summit of yonder towering
eminence.
t
Those glories we could indeed no longer dis-
cover, yet as we paced along the summit of this
vast rampart, these eternal walls* which Provi-
dence has raised round the garden of Europe,
we had time to retrace in our minds, the scenes
which we had contemplated, and to revive the
impressions which they had made.
To have visited Italy at any time is an advan-
tage, and may justly be considered as the com-
* Moenia Italia.
Liv.
L ra^ouf tpyua a-ppwroVe
Herod, ii.
THROUGH ITALY.
123
which Annibal took in his passage was a subject
of doubt and controversy even in Titus Livius’s
time, and as this historian’s own opinion on the
subject is far from being very clear, the traveller
is at liberty to indulge his own conjectures, and
may, without rebelling against the authority of
history, suppose that the Carthaginian general
entered Italy by the very road which we are now
treading, and that he took his first view of its
glories from the summit of yonder towering
eminence.
t
Those glories we could indeed no longer dis-
cover, yet as we paced along the summit of this
vast rampart, these eternal walls* which Provi-
dence has raised round the garden of Europe,
we had time to retrace in our minds, the scenes
which we had contemplated, and to revive the
impressions which they had made.
To have visited Italy at any time is an advan-
tage, and may justly be considered as the com-
* Moenia Italia.
Liv.
L ra^ouf tpyua a-ppwroVe
Herod, ii.