PRINCE'S R1SBOROUGH, Buckinghamahire, a market-town, in the parish of Prince's Risborough, is situated near the Oxfordshire border, in 51' 43' N. lat, 0° 50' W. long., distant 8 miles S. from Aylesbury, and 37 miles N.W. by W. from Loudon. The population of the parish in 1851 was 2317. The living is a perpetual curacy in the archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. According to the local tradition, Edward the Black Prince had a house in the place, from which circumstance the town had its name. Besides the parish church, an ancient edifice, which has been recently repaired and considerable enlarged, there are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists; and National, British, and Infant schools. The market house, rebuilt in 1824, is a small brick edifice. The market is on Thursday, and fairs are held on May 6th and October 21st. Petty sessions are held in the town monthly.
PltINCIPATO CITRA, a continental province of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, is bounded N. by the province of Principato Ultra, W. by the Gulf of Salerno and the province of Naples, S. by the Gulf of Maestro, and E. by the province of Baeilicata. It lies west of the central ridge of the Apennines, and between that and the coast of the Mediterranean, except a small portion which spreads along the eastern slope of the Apennines, about the sources of the river Agri. The length of the province is about 80 miles from north-west to south east, and its average breadth is about 30 miles. The area is 2261 square miles; the population in 1851 amounted to 558,809. Tho central and larger part of the province consists of tho basin of the Sale and its afiluents. The Sele (Silarus) rises in the central Apen nines near Conza, and flows in a southern direction to its junction with the Tanagro, or Rio Negro, a larger stream, which flows from the southeast through the beautiful and fertile Val-di-Diano; the united stream then runs south-west to the sea, which it reaches a few miles north of the ruins of PaNstum. The Tanagro is joined, before its confluence with the Sele, by the Rio Bianco, which descends from the Apennines of Muro in Basilicata. At the mouth of the Selo was the ancient Portus Alburnna, near which the Argonauts crested a famous temple to Jesse. The plebs of Pisatum southward from the Sae, is meshy and unhealthy ; it is overrun with buffaloes, wild horses, pig and *beep. In this plain Cruses defeated the rebel army of Spartacus, and in the 15th century the Duke of Anjou defeated the Aregooems Between the Calop and the Selo is the royal Ohm and forest of rerun°, 35 mile. in circumference, and backed by the range
of the Monte Alburno. The plain north of the Sale to the Tusciano is also unhealthy. Above this plain, to the eastward, is the pretty town of Elan (near the ruins of the ancient Eases), with 5000 Inhabitants.
The valley of the Tulare is bounded on the west by a detached ridge called Monte-Alburno, which runs about 20 miles from north weet to south-east. West of the Alburno is the valley of the Pietre or Calera, which enters the Selo a few miles above Its mouth. The valley of the Colors I. bounded to the south-west by another ridge, which rises eat of Pastern, and on which stands the town of Capaocio, wl.h 2000 inhabitants. [Presrust.] South of this ridge is • fine region of hills and valleys eloping towards the coast, and extending to the mouth as far as the Gulf of Polioastro. This tract of country, which was known to the ancient. by the name of Piestame is now called Id Cilento ; ' the small river Alcnto flows through it. The region of the Cilento is favourable to the growth of all sorts of fruit, and it contains good pasture: the inhabitants are noted for their Indostry. They have numerous coasting verge's, in which they trade with Salerno and Naples. A good road leads from Salerno to II Fano, which Is the principal town of the distriot : population 7500. The town of Policastro was formerly of some importance, but being sacked end half destroyed by the Turks in the 16th century, it has never recovered, and Is now an insignificant place of only about 700 inhabitants. Capri, which ie farther east in the innermost recess of the Gulf of Policastro, is a place of some trade, and has a natural harbour. It is said to mark the Scidros of Ilerodotus. About two miles above the mouth of the Aleut° on a lofty hill (Castellamare della Bruce) is the supposed site of the ancient relic' or Elea, founded be the Phoemens, lac. 540, and famous for the Eleatic school of philosophy established here by Zeno. Farther down the coast is the Punta di Pahnuro, a promontory named from Palinurus, the pilot of the Trojan fleet. The little rivers Molpa and Mingardo enter the sea on the eastern side of the promontory. The Alento is the ancient Heles. The bill of Monte della Stella, which stands between the Alento and 11 Valle, is covered with ruins supposed to mark the site of Pdilia, the ancient capital of Lucania.