Tha site of the battle between Ilannibal and the Romans Is 'supposed to be near Paesigneno on the north-east aide of the lake, where the hill. recede porno way from the shore. The province of Penigia is chiefly hilly, being cro eal by offsets from the Apennine chain, which streteh eouthward in • direction parallel to the counsel of the Tiber. South of the town of Perugia are tome extensive plains, one of which lies °seta-ant towards Foligno, and another along the right bank of the Tiber, towards Cita della Piere. The principal affluents of the Tiber in the provinoe of Perugia are the Chiescio, the No-store, the Neje, and the Paglia which receives the Chiana, the outlet of the Lake of Chiusi in Tuscany. [Cntax•, Vat. oil The province of Pensgia is the most fertile of the provinces south of the Apennines. The principal productions are corn, wiue, oil, silk, and grata, un which lerge herds of fine horned cattle are fed : nearly one-half of the consumption of butcher's meat by the city of Rome is aupplied by cattle from Perugia. The Lets of Perugia abounds with fish, which forms a considerable article of export; and the shores are frequented by numerous aquatic birds. The climate is healthy, except in a few low spots on the bauks of the lake and in the valley of the Chiang near Cita della Piave.
The principal towns of the province are—Penuota; Assist; NOCERA. Foligno, a pleasant well-built town on the Topino, on or near the cite of the ancient Fulgiolurn, is said to have risen to importance only about the 11th centur7, after the destruction of the neighbouring town of Forum Flawinii. It has a handsome cathedral, several other fine
churches ; manufactures of woollens and silks, extensive paper-mills, and 7300 inhabitants. Todi, the ancient Tudertuns, a city first of the Unibri, next of the Etruscans, and afterwards a Roman colony, stands on a hill above the Tiber. It has a cathedral, and auotlicr handsome church built after the design of Bramaute, with several remains of Etruscan and Roman antiquities, among which aro the town Avails and the ruins of a temple of Mars. The population is about 3000. mid di Castello, a well-built town, with 5000 inhabitants, in the valley of the Upper Tiber, near the borders of Tuscany, contains several fine churches (in which are some good paintings), and a palace of the former baronial family of Viteib Clad della Pare, a small town situated on an eminence above the Chiana, has about 2000 inhabitants. Gualdo, a walled town of 5000 inhabitants, near the site of the ancient Tadinum, is situated at the foot of the Apennines. Its neighbourhood was the scene of the defeat of the Gotha under Totila by the Romans under Names. Spc/lo, a few miles north of Foligno, is on the site of the ancient llispellum, of which them are still considerable remains of its walls, a Roman gate called Porta Veneris, a triumphal arch in honour of the emperor Macrinue, and an amphitheatre iu the plain below the town. Spello has eeveral churches, with good paintings, a college, and about 2400 inhabitants.