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Besides this principal quarry or mafs, from which ahnoll all 

 the fifh yet found have been extraded, the workmen fhew two 

 or three others of the fame ftone feated in the fides of the 

 adjoining banks, fome of which, they faid, had been difcovered 

 not long fince : They had all been tried, and were found pre- 

 cifely of the fame kind, and equally containing fifh ; but the 

 people being very poor, and no funds allovired for the bufinefs, 

 which would require confiderable expenfe to clear away the 

 bearing, and prepare for working to advantage, nothing of con- 

 fequence had been done. 



The foil of thefe quarries had been the property of a Signer 

 Bozza, formerly an apothecary of Verona, who purchafed, or 

 took it on leafe, many years ago, and whofe cabinet is too well 

 known to all the naturalifts of Europe, and has been too long 

 one of the principal objeds of the attention and admiration of 

 thofe who pafs through this town, to make it neceffary for me 

 to enter into any detailed defcription of it; but while I was 

 there his whole colledlion, with the quarries, was agreed for, 

 and, as I was informed, purchafed, at a very confiderable expenfe, 

 by the Marquis Gazola, of that city. This gentleman had 

 already a very fine colledion of his own, containing many fifli 

 that were not in Bozza's. He was fo kind as to give me a 

 catalogue of thefe, in addition to Bozza's printed catalogue, 

 both of which, as I have not feen them in any publication, I 

 ftiall fubjoin to this paper*. They will be found to contain to- 

 gether 



• I give thefe catalogues juft as I received them from Mr. Bozza and the Mar- 

 quis Gazola, pofleffing neither fufficient knowledge of the natural hiftory of 



fiflies 



