TREWS:II, or TItEVISO, a province of Austrian Italy, formerly included in the Venetian territory, is bounded N. by the province of Bellew", E. Friuli, W. by the province of Vicenza, and S. by the has anarea of 929 square miles, Fs mune% and reckons 2S6,199 inhabitants. Two-thirds of the province consist of a fine plain, which is one of the most fertile parts of the Venetian territory ; the other third, which lies northward of the town of Treviso, is hilly. The ricer Piave, coming from Belluue, crosier the province of Treviso from north-west to south-east, and enters the Adriatic north of the lagoons. Further north, in a direction nearly parallel to the I'iavo, flows the river Livenza. Both the Piave and the Livenza are navigable. for large beets to the sea. The principal productions of the province are corn, wine, fruit, wool, silk, cheese, and cattle. There aro also manufactories of silks, woollens, and paper. Twelve miles N. from
Treviso, where the hills begin to rise, is an extensive forest called Montello. belonging to the crown ; it supplies Venice with timber for ship-building. The principal towns of the province are—TREvlso : A solo, a very old town, now decayed, contains 3000 inhabitants ; it was in the castle of Asolo that Catering Cornnro, last queen of Cyprus, was kept in a kind of honourable confinement by the Venetian senate from 14S9 till her death, which occurred in 1510: Castelfranco has 6000 inhabitants, a handsome collegiate church, and considerable traffic; it is the native place of the painter Giorgione : Concgliano has 6000 inhabitants : Ceneda is a bishop's see, and has 5000 inhabit ants : Oderso, an ancient but decayed town, 12 miles N.B. from Treviso, has about 6000 inhabitants : Porto Buffole, on the Livenza, where the river becomes navigable for large boats, about 22 miles from the sea, has 3000 inhabitants.