SILA  , a mountainous See also:

• FOREST

forest See also:

• DISTRICT

district of See also:

• CALABRIA

Calabria, See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, to the E. of See also:

• COSENZA (anc. Consentia)

Cosenza, extending for some 37 M . N. to S. and 25 M . E. to W . The name goes back to the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period, and then probably belonged to a larger See also:

• EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension of territory than at See also:

• PRESENT

present . In See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient times these mountains supplied See also:

• TIMBER

timber to the Greeks for See also:

• SHIPBUILDING

shipbuilding, the forests have given way to pastures to some extent; but a See also:

• PART

part of them, which belongs to the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, is maintained . Geologically these mountains, which consist of See also:

• GRANITE (adapted from the Ital. granite, grained; Lat. granum, grain)

granite, See also:

• GNEISS

gneiss and See also:

• MICA

mica schist, are the See also:

• OLDEST

oldest portion of the See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

peninsula; their culminating point is the Botte Donato (6330 ft.), and they are not See also:

• FREE

free of See also:

• SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow until the See also:

• LATE

late See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring . They are very rarely explored by travellers .