text:  Even the various provinces of the same kingdom are strangers to each other; the Abruzzi are like an unknown world to the inhabitants of Naples insomuch that when two Neapolitan naturalists not ten years since made an excursion to visit the Majella one of the highest of the central Apennines they found there many medicinal plants growing in the greatest profusion which the Neapolitans were regularly in the habit of importing from other countries as no one suspected their existence within their own kingdom