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X)ts. THROUGH ITALY. 145
HISTORY.
III. That a country > thus gifted with a fertile
soil, a serene sky, and unusual beauty, should
have attracted the attention of its neighbors,
and not unfrequently allured distant tribes from
less favored settlements, was natural; and accord-
ingly we find that the nations of the south and the
tribes of the north, Phenicians,Trojans and Greeks,
Gauls, Goths and Vandals; and in more modern
times, that Spaniards, French and Austrians, have
invaded, ravaged, or subdued its several provinces
in their turns with various success, and w ith very
different consequences. The Phenicians esta-
blished themselves in Etruria : the Greeks prin-
cipally occupied the southern provinces: the
Trojans fixed themselves inLatium, the heart and
the centre of the country; and the Celtic tribes
seized the fertile territories extending along the
banks of the Po, and stretching from the Alps to
the Apennines. The Phenicians and the Greeks
brought with them their arts and sciences, esta-
blished flourishing cities, and laid the foundations
of the future glory and prosperity of the country.
The barbarians of the north never passed their
frozen barriers without bringing devastation and
ruin in their train. If they made a transient incur-
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HISTORY.
III. That a country > thus gifted with a fertile
soil, a serene sky, and unusual beauty, should
have attracted the attention of its neighbors,
and not unfrequently allured distant tribes from
less favored settlements, was natural; and accord-
ingly we find that the nations of the south and the
tribes of the north, Phenicians,Trojans and Greeks,
Gauls, Goths and Vandals; and in more modern
times, that Spaniards, French and Austrians, have
invaded, ravaged, or subdued its several provinces
in their turns with various success, and w ith very
different consequences. The Phenicians esta-
blished themselves in Etruria : the Greeks prin-
cipally occupied the southern provinces: the
Trojans fixed themselves inLatium, the heart and
the centre of the country; and the Celtic tribes
seized the fertile territories extending along the
banks of the Po, and stretching from the Alps to
the Apennines. The Phenicians and the Greeks
brought with them their arts and sciences, esta-
blished flourishing cities, and laid the foundations
of the future glory and prosperity of the country.
The barbarians of the north never passed their
frozen barriers without bringing devastation and
ruin in their train. If they made a transient incur-
VOL. IV. L