a province of the kingdom of Sardinia, the northernmost of the whole dominion. Its ex- tent is 366 square miles, or 234,240 English acres. It contains sixty-nine market towns and villages, but no city, and only 20,750 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is situated on the river Toccia, in a valley where the road over the Simplon ends. It contains 1260 inhabitants.