PERUGIA, a city of Italy, in the states of the church. It is situated near the Tiber, on the summit of a moun tain, and commands a magnificent view over a great ex tent of fertile country, marked by hill and dale, and en livened by towns and villages. The town is clean and well built, though from the number of its churches and convents, it has a general air of dullness. The cathedral is a building of indifferent architecture. The church of St. Pietro, belonging to a Benedictine abbey, is sustained by eighteen pillars of fine marble, and adorned with a splendid marble altar. The other public buildings are, the town-house, a large and handsome theatre, two public fountains, an university, and several hospitals. There are in private houses, and in some of the public buildings, several valuable paintings by Pietro Perugino and his pu , pil Raphael. Ampng the objects of antiquity here, aro fortune and distinction, on a great scale ; but in Peru the miner is generally an adventurous speculator, who trades with borrowed funds, and is subject to great disadvantages.
The business is thus held in disrepute, as neither safe nor creditable. About the end of last century, there were wrought in Peru, four mines of quicksilver, four of copper, twelve of lead, seventy of gold, and seven hun dred and eighty-four of silver. The produce of these mines, for the space of ten years, was the gate of the Piazza Grimana, and, at the gate of St. Angelo, a Temple of Mars, adorned with pillars of eastern granite. There arc here some manufactures of velvet and silk stuffs, and a consiclerabc trade is carried on in cattle, wool, silk, corn, oil, and brandy. Population about 16,000. East Long. 12° 22' 13", and North Lat. 43° 6' 46".