VERNON. (Rune.] VEROLf. [Faosisouz.] VEItCYNA, a province of the Austrian crownland of Venice in North Italy, is bounded N. by the Tyrol, E. by the provinces of Vicenza and Padua, S. by the provinces of Rovigo and Mantua, and W. partly by Mantua and partly by the Lake of Garda, which sepa rates the northern part of the province of Verona from the province of Brescia. The length of the province is about 50 miles from north to south, and its greatest breadth is about 25 miles. The area is 1094.
square miles; the population in 1850 was 302,902. The northern part of the province is hilly, and even mountainous near the borders of the Tyrol; the highest summit of Monte Baldo is above 6000 feet high.
The southern part merges into the great plain of the Po; but the territory of Verona does not touch that river, its southern boundary being marked by the Tartaro or Castagnaro, an affluent of the Adige, which divides it on that side from the province of Mantua. The province is divided into thirteen districts.
The river Adige crosses the province of Verona in its length from north to south-sonth-east. It runs through a very narrow valley from the frontiers of the Tyrol down to the defile of Chiusa, near Rivoli, after which it emerges into the plain of Lombardy. The province of Verona has few towns of any consequence besides the capital Legnano is a fortress of considerable strength, on the Adige, south of Verona : population, 6000. Villafranca is a bustling market-town on the road
from Verona to Mantua. Rieoli, on the right bank of the Adige, north of Verona, is famous for the battle won by Bonaparte and Massena over the Austrians in January, 1797. This country is full of the recollections of those memorable campaigns, and also of the campaigns of the Sardinians and Austrians in 1843 and 1849. On the banks of the Alpone, near the wooden bridge of Arcole, is an obelisk, raised in commemoration of the battle of Arcola. The enitern bank of the Lake of Garda, which belongs to the province of Verona, is not so favoured by nature as the opposite or Brescia side : the ridge of Monte Baldo ranges close to the shore of the lake, and joins on the north the Alps of the Tyrol The town of Malsesine (popula tion 3000), with an old gothic castle, is on this coast, as well as the little town of Garda, which has given to the lake its modern name.
[Garine.] In the mountains near Verona is the village of Gargagnago, where Dante, for a time a guest of Can della Scala, lord of Verona, wrote part of his ' Purgatorio.' The valley of Renee, 15 miles distant from Verona, is worth the notice of the geologist for its fossil fishes and its shells.