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XX. Sketch of the Geology of the Environs of Nice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

Thomas Allan Esq.
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Nice is situated on the shore of the Mediterranean, in lat. 43° 41′ 16″ N. and long, east of Greenwich 7° 16′ 37″. The county of which Nice is the capital, was comprehended in the Roman province of the Maritime Alps: it was included, while under the influence of France, in a department to which the same name was given; and now, it is restored to the sovereignty of Piémont, it may be considered as bounded on the west by the Var, which separates it from France, on the north and east by the mountains of Dauphiné and Piémont, and on the south, it is washed by the Mediterranean.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , 1818 , pp. 427 - 464
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1818

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page 428 note * Bonaparte saw the advantage which must accrue to the country by a thoroughfare being opened in this direction, and commanded a road to be constructed, fit for every purpose between Nice and Genoa. Already one-third of this imperial undertaking is completed, one-third of the road is marked out, and the remainder mainder continues only practicable to mules and pedestrians. So much were the Genoese (now also Sardinian subjects) sensible of the advantage which this road would be to them, that they offered, after the restoration, to accomplish the undertaking, on being allowed to reimburse themselves by means of a toll; but the proposal was rejected. It is curious to reflect, that this road, now so unfit for the purposes of communication, was the great Roman way into Spain, and the same by which the armies of Charles V. invaded France during his contests with Francis I.

page 429 note * His last publication is entitled, Histoire Naturelle de Crustacés des Environs de Nice. Paris, 1816.

page 446 note * Journal des Mines, No. 200.