VERONA, a delegation or province of Austrian Lombardy, within the government of Venice. It is bounded on the north by the Tyrol, on the north-east by Vicenza, on the east by Padua, on the south-east by Polesina, on the south by Mantua, and on the west by the lake of Garda, which divides it from Brescia. It extends over 1320 square miles, and contains 277,849 inhabitants, all Catholics, and all, excepting those in thirteen mountain communes, who speak a corrupt German, being of the Italian race. On the north, this province is partly occupied by the Tridentine Alps,
which extend in a circular form to the river Adige. The vicinity of the lake of Garda is also mountainous; but the other portions of the province, between the Adige and the Mincio, belong to the extended plains of Lombardy. Besides the rivers now mentioned, it is watered by the Taro, the Castagnaro, and the Polesina, which all finally empty themselves into the Po. Much of the land is sterile; but in the south-west a part of it is moderately fertile, producing wheat, maize, rice, rye, flax, hemp, wine, and fruits of various kinds. A large quantity of silk is produced, and that product has been and still is increasing with the new mulberry trees planted from year to year. The woods provide timber, and the lakes and rivers abundance of fish. Some copper and some coal mines are worked, though not extensively. Of the wealth of this province, a very considerable portion is drawn from the quarries of marble and alabaster, of which a great variety is raised, especially some of a green colour, very highly estimated.