Ancient Roman Geography - The border between the Apennines and the Alps

Ancient Roman geography - The Limit between the Apennines and the Alps

The question of the boundary between the Alps and the Apennines has been long a subject of debate ; the engineers have decided it by making a railroad above Sarona over the Col d'Altase, which is not 1,600 feet in height, whence one descends into the famous valleys of the Bormida and the Tanaro.

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