The New Student's Reference Work/Arcadia

Arca'dia, a mountainous country of ancient, lies in the northwestern part of the. In the northeast is the great waterfall of the, which the Greeks thought the main river of the infernal regions. Arcadia seems never to have had immigration from other countries, but was always peopled by the same race, noted for their great simplicity of life. Cut off from commerce divided by the mountains into small districts that had very little to do with one another, the rustic ways of the Arcadian seemed awkward and stupid to other Greeks. Their history is made up of wars against the. They became a part of the, and later of the province of. Arcadia greatly praises the Arcadians.