Excerpt from The History of Civilization, Vol. 3 of 7 The barriers embraced in the two first mentioned, have served valuable purposes in protecting the Grecian and Italian peninsulas, especially the latter, from hostile inva sions while the infant Hercules was growing to maturity. The Gaul, the Carthaginian, the Cimbri, the Teuton, always found the Alps with their snowy summits, and their fearful glaciers, to interpose most formidable obsta cles to their reveling on the plains of Campania. 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.