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HANNIBAL
CROSSES THE ALPS
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HANNIBAL
CROSSES THE ALPS
By CECIL TORR, M.A.
CAMBRIDGE : AT THE
UNIVERSITY PRESS
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PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
PREFACE
I have heard this question discussed ever since I was a child,but have never yet written anything about it except in mySmall Talk at Wreyland. In the First Series, page 75, I was talkingabout travelling on the Continent, and I said:
“Plenty of people went to Switzerland at the time when I firstwent—1869—far more than when my father went there thirtyyears before, but nothing like the crowds that go there now. Theykept more to peaks and passes then; and they were always talkingof Hannibal’s passage of the Alps. Junius was talked out: Tichborneand Dreyfus were yet to come; and Hannibal filled the gap.I used to hear them at home as well as there; and they all had theirpet routes for Hannibal—Col d’Argentière, Mont Genèvre, MontCenis, Little Mont Cenis, Little St Bernard and Great St Bernard,and even Simplon and St Gothard. In 1871 I went looking fortraces of the vinegar on the Great St Bernard. My father upheldthe Cenis routes as the only passes from which you can look downupon the plains of Italy. I doubt if Hannibal did look down.I think he may have shown his men their line of march upon amap, just as Aristagoras used a map to show the Spartans theirline of march 282 years earlier.”
viI wrote Anaxagoras by mistake for Aristagoras, and passed itin the proofs; and it was printed in