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MAP OF CAMPANIA.
This map is grounded upon the modern
survey of Zannoni, considered the most
correct that has been made of the country.
The learned dissertation of Pellegrini upon
its localities has been the guide in fixing
the ancient names; and the Peutingerian
tables have at the same time been con-
sulted \
The proper boundary of Campania may
yet afford subject for controversy, since
we find it varying in each successive age,
as well as with every writer. Hannibal,
according to Polybius, thought it in form
like a theatre, surrounded by impracticable
mountains, which left but three ways into
the Campi Phlegraei, as he designates the
plain between its principal cities, ISTola and
Capua.
Behind Tifata, that general for some
1 The alterations made in this edition are from personal
inspection.
MAP OF CAMPANIA.
This map is grounded upon the modern
survey of Zannoni, considered the most
correct that has been made of the country.
The learned dissertation of Pellegrini upon
its localities has been the guide in fixing
the ancient names; and the Peutingerian
tables have at the same time been con-
sulted \
The proper boundary of Campania may
yet afford subject for controversy, since
we find it varying in each successive age,
as well as with every writer. Hannibal,
according to Polybius, thought it in form
like a theatre, surrounded by impracticable
mountains, which left but three ways into
the Campi Phlegraei, as he designates the
plain between its principal cities, ISTola and
Capua.
Behind Tifata, that general for some
1 The alterations made in this edition are from personal
inspection.