No sadder way of entering Italy can well be imagined than landing at Ancona and crossing through the apennines to Rome in the early spring.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
So enthusiastic were the Irish, that, not content with the religious work in Ireland, the Irish Church sent out its missionaries to Scotland, to Germany, and to the Alps and apennines.
"Practical Grammar and Composition"
Thomas Wood
The length of this series of peculiar elevations-mountains and plateaus-is that of the entire peninsula, from the North Cape to Christiansand on the Skager Rack, some twelve hundred miles, having an average width of about two hundred miles,-which gives to the mountains of Norway and Sweden an area larger than the Alps, the apennines, and the Pyrenees combined, while the lakes, waterfalls, and cascades far surpass those of the rest of Europe.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou