Note 1518 — Chapter XII · REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY (continued 2)

Schaube, Handelsgeschichte, 1906, pp. 334–338. The Great St. Bernard Pass was the principal artery of trade between Northern Italy and the fairs of Champagne. The Septimer Pass, now little used, was much traveled in the Middle Ages and was a principal trade route between Lombardy and southern and western Germany (Schaube, op. cit., p. 450; Oehlmann, op. cit., in: Jahrbuch, vol. iv, 1879, pp. 305–323).