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, from the earliest times, whether by its intrinsic beauty, or by its high serviceableness, attracted towards itself tribe after tribe from the north-west and north. Hence, at the highest period to which we can ascend, a great variety of population existed on the soil; and the pressure of migration seems generally to have been southward. What enthusiasm for Italy her "fatal beauty" is apt to excite in English visitors, we all know: more remarkable is it, that the ancient historian Dionysius, a Greek who had surveyed the