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Excerpt from Library of Universal History and Popular Science, Vol. 3 of 25: Containing a Record of the Human Race From the Earliest Historical Period to the Present Time; Embracing a General Survey of the Progress of Mankind in National and Social Life, Civil Government, Religion, Literature, Science and Art The Hellenic peninsula has a number of mountains and a very irreg ular and extensive coast-line. Many deep bays strongly indent the shores, and long narrow promontories extend far into the sea on every side; and this is the reason for the territorial area of Greece being less than that of any other country of Southern Europe. There are many excellent harbors. The sea is not dangerous in its vicinity. There are many littoral islands of exceeding beauty and fertility off the coast. The structure of the coast-line has been favorable to maritime pursuits and to navigation, as communication between most portions of the country is easier by sea than by land, the greater mountains which in tersect the peninsula in every direction being mainly lofty and rugged, and thus traversable only by a few passes, which are frequently blocked by snow during the winter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.