. Italy: handbook for travellers. Third Part, Southern Italy and Sicily . Agent, JosephE. Hayden, Esq. — English Church Service in winter. Castellammare, a busy trading and fishing town with 33,000inhab., lies in the E. angle of the Bay of Naples, at the beginningof the peninsula of Sorrento, at the base and on the slope of a spurof Monte Sant Angelo. It occupies the site of the ancient Stabiae,which was destroyed in 79, at the same time as Pompeii, andthence derives its official name of Castellammare di Stabia. It washere that the elder Pliny perished while observing the eruption(p. 114)

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. Italy: handbook for travellers. Third Part, Southern Italy and Sicily . Agent, JosephE. Hayden, Esq. — English Church Service in winter. Castellammare, a busy trading and fishing town with 33,000inhab., lies in the E. angle of the Bay of Naples, at the beginningof the peninsula of Sorrento, at the base and on the slope of a spurof Monte Sant Angelo. It occupies the site of the ancient Stabiae,which was destroyed in 79, at the same time as Pompeii, andthence derives its official name of Castellammare di Stabia. It washere that the elder Pliny perished while observing the eruption(p. 114). Excavations of the ruins of Stabiae, which lay to theleft, by the entrance to the town, towards the heights, have notbeen undertaken since 1782, and several villas then laid bare havebeen again covered with rubbish. The town extends along the coast for upwards of 1 M., consist-ing of one main street and a second running parallel with it. About1/3 M. from the station we reach the Largo Principe Umberto, asmall piazza embeJlisbjyLwith flower-beds and trees, where the.

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