53. The three principal passages of the Alps between Gaul
and Italy are those of Mount St. Bernard, Mount Cenis, and
Mount Genevre. Tradition, and a resemblance of names (Alpes
Penninae), had assigned the first of these for the march of
Hannibal (see Simler de Alpibus). The Chevalier de Folard
(Polyb. tom. iv.) and M. d'Anville have led him over Mount
Genevre. But notwithstanding the authority of an experienced
officer and a learned geographer, the pretensions of Mount
Cenis are supported in a specious, not to say a convincing
manner, by M. Grosley, Observations sur l'Italie, tom. i. p.
40, etc.