in Italy, are bounded by the Venetian territories, on the north; by the gulph of Venice, on the north-east; by Naples, on the south-east; by the Tuscan sea, on the south-west; and by the duchy of Tuscany, on the north-west, almost encompassing that duchy on the land side; being about two hundred and twenty miles long, and from twenty to one hundred and forty in breadth.

POPPY, in ornithology. See Alca.