Excerpt from The March of Hannibal From the Rhone to the Alps

Among the many sources of interest which engage our attention in passing through a foreign country, neither its economy, political and domestic, its natural curiosities, its scenery, nor its field sports, more powerfully attract the traveller, than the sight of places renowned in history as the scenes where great events have been transacted. The plains where battles have been fought - the fortresses where sieges have been undertaken - the mountain passes which armies have traversed, most forcibly arrest the attention, for such events form the materials of which the annals of the human race are principally composed.

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