Excerpt from Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1922, Vol. 12
Above this limit the less fastidious flocks found ampler and better pasturage. Cattle and horses, however, which needed succulent herb age, found suitable grazing Only in high level valleys or lake basins which combined deep soil with summer showers, like the lake-strewn highlands of ancient Arcadia and Epirus or the longitudinal valleys Of the Apennines. In the more arid southern zone, the best summer pastures were located on westward-facing ranges, like the western Apennines, the mountains of Elis, and the high valleys of many fountained Ida, whose cattle pastures in Homeric days reflected the location Of this Mysian mountain between rain-bearing winds from the Aegean Sea and those from the Propontis or Marmora. Mountains or limestone plateaus which barely attained the critical elevation of feet meters), like the Judean Plateau or the Barca Plateau of northern Africa, yielded ephemeral grasses even on their summits. These countries, therefore, had to restrict the raising Of horses and cattle to the scant water-soaked or irrigable lowlands at their base, or draw on the stock Of the pastoral nomads along their steppe borders. Only sheep and goats, led about by some boy shepherd of the hills, could thrive on these uncertain upland pastures.
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