Sorrento. The Birthplace of Tasso:  "AMONGST the many delightful situations with which Italy abounds, Sorrento is perhaps one of the most lovely and delicious. The soil is volcanic, presenting a succession of unbroken rocks along the coast of the beautiful bay which it skirts, while between those rocks and the mountains extends a fertile tract of alluvial soil known by the name of the Piano di Sorrento.   Upon this swelling plain, and amidst the neighboring hills and rocks and woods, numerous villas are distributed, which  combine in their situation all the advantages that sea and land can afford. The approach to Sorrento, and the country around it, as the accompanying plate sufficiently  testifies, are highly picturesque, presenting, on a limited kale, all the most striking beauties of mountain scenery. To these attractions may be added the fame of salubrity,  which it has long and justly possessed. Deservedly celebrated, as Sorrento is, for the delicious beauty of its scenery and for its climate, it possesses a still more engrossing claim upon the interest of the traveler, as the residence of Bernardo Tasso, and the birth-place of his immortal son."