1. NAPLES the largest and richest city of Italy; has a lovelysituation within the bend of Naples Bay, spreading from the foreshoreback upon wooded hills and rising terraces, behind which lie the snow-clad Apennines; to the E. lies the old town with its historic Via di Roma and narrow crowded thoroughfares; the newer portion on the W. is more spaciously laid out, and much has been done in recentyearsover the whole city to improve the sanitation and water supply; the national museum, rich in Pompeii relics, the university (4150 students), the nationallibrary (275,000 vols.), the archiepiscopal cathedral, and the four mediæval gateways are the chief architectural features; large quantities of wine, olive-oil, chemicals, perfumery, &c., are exported, while woollen, silk, linen, glove, and other factories carry on a goodhome trade; Naples became incorporated in the kingdom of Italy in 1861 after the Bourbondynasty had been swept away by Garibaldi.
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