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This lidge runs beside tlie River Chiese for some melts into even ground. In this ridge there are no 

 distance from N. to S. and then, turning E., "sinks caves, strictly speaking ; nor can there be in this whole 



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into the plain by a gentle slope." This is the first region S. of the Alps and N. of the Po, where the 

 visible hill you encounter as you go from Mantua to only hills are those made by the great heaps of broken 

 Brescia. In other words, it is the last outpost of the rock and rubble (moraines, as we call them in the 





Fig. 6.— the FOOTHILI, 



.\I,PS .SEEN" FR' 



.-.\NO, FIFTEEN MILES AWAY. 



Alps in the dhection of Mantua. Fig. 3 is a photo- Alps) left long ago by the glaciers of the last Ice Age, 

 graph of the ridge at Carpenedolo which shows how it but now covered with green. But there are a number 



