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The barriers embraced in the two first mentioned, have served valuable purposes in protecting the Grecian and Italian peninsulas, especially the latter, from hostile inva sions while the infant Hercules was growing to maturity. The Gaul, the Carthaginian, the Cimbri, the Teuton, always found the Alps with their snowy summits, and their fearful glaciers, to interpose most formidable obsta cles to their reveling on the plains of Campania.
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