a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples in the Ulterior Principality, with a bishop's see. Mr Swinburne describes it as an ugly city, built upon the uneven summit of a mountain, with an extensive look-out on all sides, but exposed to every blast that blows. It does not appear to be fo old as the time of the Romans; therefore may be supposed to owe its rise to the demolition of some neighbouring town, and to the advantages its situation afforded for discovery and defence. It is but a poor place, without