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326 Italy and her People
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B. ITALY AND HER PEOPLE
I. The Po Valley
The form of Italy as a whole is a triangle, of which the eastern side
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is bounded by the Ionian Sea and the Adriatic Gulf, the
southern and western sides by the Sicilian and Tyrrhenian
(or Tuscan) seas. These two sides converge to form the
apex of the triangle. . . . The third side, or base, of this
triangle is on the north, and is formed by the chain of the
Alps, which stretches across the country from Marseilles
and the Sardinian Sea, with no break, nearly to the head
of the Adriatic Sea.