The southern coast of the peninsula of Sorrento, as far as Cape Campanella, belongs also to the province of Principal° Citra. The Gulf of Salerno extends nearly in a semicircle from Cape Campanella to Point Licosa, a promontory opposite the island of Licosa, the ancient Leueogia The towns of Vietri (3000 inhabitants), La-Scala, Amex!, and Sataraxo, the capital. are in this district, which is remarkably populous and healthy. The inhabitants aro mostly engaged in the coasting trade and the fisheries'.
A long offset of the central Apennines, called Monte San Angelo, runs in a westward direction, dividing the province from Prinoipato Ultra, and than running along the whole length of the peninsula of Sorrento. This ridge forms a natural boundary between the plain of Campania and the basin of the Sole. The province however includes also a district north of this ridge, extending to the banks of the Sarno.
Among other towns of the province, besides those already mentioned, are the following :—La-Ceecs, a town of 5000 inhabitants, and a bislop's see, delightfully situated in a valley of the Apennines, on the high road from Naples to Salerno. The population is chiefly employed in manufacturing linen, silk and cotton istoffa, and pottery. The neighbouring Benedictine monastery of La-Trinith, founded in 1025, is famous fur its vast collection of historical, judicial, and religious manuscripts, amounting to about 40,000 parchtneut rolls, end above 60,000 paper manuscripts. The library Is still more famous for its rare manuscript* and early printed books; among the former is the manuscript Latin Vulgate, written on vellum, between the 5th and the 7th century. The abbey church contains tombs of Sibilla (queen of Roger IL, king of Naples and Sicily), and of several suitipopeel A fine grotto beneath the abbey has originated the name of the town.
The railway along the coast from Naples penetrates into the province as far as Noceee, a abort distance north-west of La-Cava. Near Nocera Is l'agani, a village situated on a hill of tufa; its church of San Michele is of seine note, as containing the remains of St. Alfonso de Liguori. The district between La-Cara and Nocera is studded with hamlet*, churches, villas, and ruined castles, embosoined among trees or surrounded by vineyards and cornfields. The great Calabrian road after laming through Salerno and Eboli, runs east to the lower part of the Negro, near Auletta, whence it runs up the whole length of the Val di Llano, along the right bank of the Negro. This beau tiful and fertile valley, 20 miles long and 8 miles broad, is situated between the main ridge of the Apennines find the Alonte'Alburno, which is scored by deep ravines and clothed with extensive forests of oak and beech. In the Val di Diann are (population 7000), situated on a Lill, at the lase of which tho Negro disappears and rune underground for two miles, emerging again at Pert:sea; La-Sala, a thriving town of 8200 luliabitanta; Diu (population 7000), which is the Luoanian Tegionem, and gives name to the valley; and Padula (population 0000), near which are the romaine of the monastery of San Lorenzo, ruined by the French. Same, a considerable town in the plain of Campania, near the river of the same name, 5 miles N. from Noses, has several convents and churches, and about 10,000 inhabitenta Between the Sarno and the Monte San Angelo, Norse' defeated the Goths under Teas, A.D. 539.