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GEOGKAPHICAL NOTICES. 



• The same Latin name also belonged to 

 the tawu now called Frejus, in the S. E. 

 of France. 

 Fusaro. A lake near Naples, said to be the 

 ancient Acheron. 



G. or Ger. Germany. 



Garg. Gargano : a hilly, down-like promon- 



toiy on the Adriatic side of the Kingdom 



of Naples. 



Gasc. Gascony. 



Gemmi. A Swiss mountain between the Ober- 

 land of Berne and the VaUais. 



Gen. Genoa. 



Gorgona. A small island about thirty miles 

 from Leghorn. 



Grimsel. A Swiss mountain separating the 



waters of the Aar and Khone. 

 Guadagnolo. A small town situated high up 



among the hills to the E. of Tivoli. 



H. Holland; i. e., the present kingdom. 



Halle. There are four towns of this name : 



one in Thuringia (Saxony), one in the 



Tyrol, one in Wiirtemherg, and one in 

 Belgium. 



Hallstadt. A town in Austria proper, on a 

 lake of the same name, buried among high 

 mountains. 



Han. Hanover. 



HeUigen Blut. A convent high up on the 



Great Glockner. 

 Hols. Holstein. 



Ir. Ireland. 

 Is. Isola or Island. 

 1st., Istr. Istria. 

 It. Italy. 



Jap. Japygia, or Terra di Otranto : the S. E. 

 extremity of Italy. 



Jons. A village and small lake in the Pays 

 de Vaud, amongst the ridges of the 

 Jura. 



Juvenal (Port) at MontpeUier. The point to 

 which the wool from Barbary and the 

 Levant is brought, to furnish the manu- 

 factm'es of MontpeUier. 



K. Nap. Kingdom of Naples. 



La Ciodad. A small town S.E. of Marseille. 

 Lampedusa. A small island S. of Malta. 



Lang. Languedoc. 



Laus. Lausanne. 



Lig. Ligui'ia, the Genoese territory. 



Lomb. Lombardy. 



Lorr. Lorraine. 



1. Sax. Lower Saxony. 



Luc. Lucania ; a large district extending be- 

 tween the Bays of Salerno and PoUcastro 

 to the Gulf of Tarento. 



Mad. Madonie : calcareous mountains in Sicily ; 



anciently Nebrodes. 

 Majella. A mountain in Abruzzi, S. of Sul- 



mona, and between the sources of the 



Sangro and Pescara. Estimated height, 



8,500 feet. 

 Maretimo. An island on the W. of Sicily. 

 Mai'schlins. A town in the Grisons, not far 



from where the torrent Landquart falls 



into the Rhine. 

 Mars. Marseille, 

 mdt. Mediterranean; generally used as an 



adjective. 



Mil. Territory of Milan. 



Miseno. A promontory near Naples. 



Mt., Mte. Mount, Mont, Monte, Montagna. 



Mte. Cornu, or the Gran Sasso, 9,000 feet. 



The highest mountain in the Abruzzi. 

 Mte. de' Fiori. On the borders of Umbria and 



the Abruzzi ; about 6,000 feet high. 



Mont Louis. A town in the Eastern Pyrenees. 



Montague della Sibilla, in Umbria. Monte 

 Vettore, the highest point, is reckoned to 

 be 7,000 feet above the sea. 



Monte di St. Angelo. Near Naples. 



Montigno. Among the Apennines of Camerata. 



Mor. Moravia. 



Mtp. MontpeUier. 



n. North or northern. 



Nap. Naples, i. e., near the city. 



Narh. Narbonne. 



Nebr. Nebrodes. See Madonie. 



Nicolaithal. A vaUey descending fi'om Monte 



Rosa and the Matterhoru to the VaUais. 

 Norderney. An island on the N. of Germany, 



not iar from Embden. 

 Novarese. The district of the town of Novara 



between Turin and MUan. 



Oscro. An island in the Gulf of Flume. 



