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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 89 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SILA , a mountainous See also:

FOREST

forest See also:

DISTRICT

district of See also:

CALABRIA

Calabria, See also:

Italy, to the E. of See also:

COSENZA (anc. Consentia)

Cosenza, extending for some 37 M. N. to S. and 25 M. E. to W. The name goes back to the See also:

Greek See also:

period, and then probably belonged to a larger See also:

EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension of territory than at See also:

PRESENT

present. In See also:

ancient times these mountains supplied See also:

TIMBER

timber to the Greeks for See also:

SHIPBUILDING

shipbuilding, the forests have given way to pastures to some extent; but a See also:

PART

part of them, which belongs to the See also:

state, is maintained. Geologically these mountains, which consist of See also:

GRANITE (adapted from the Ital. granite, grained; Lat. granum, grain)

granite, See also:

GNEISS

gneiss and See also:

MICA

mica schist, are the See also:

OLDEST

oldest portion of the See also:

ITALIAN

Italian See also:

peninsula; their culminating point is the Botte Donato (6330 ft.), and they are not See also:

FREE

free of See also:

SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow until the See also:

LATE

late See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring. They are very rarely explored by travellers.

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