NOME I. MIAGITE. 



See Barral, p. 31, who says that a serpentine in 

 globules, the size of a nut, some ribboned, some 

 .vith concentric zones, forms mountains near 

 Fiumorbo. 



Mr. Strange published at Milan, in 1778, an 

 iccount of some columnar hills in the north of 

 [taly. They seem to be not of granite, as he 

 supposes, but basalton. That of plate iv. fig. 6. 

 resembles Miagite. 



A late French writer, who does not seem to 

 have examined the accounts of former inquirers 

 [an accident which often happens to the lively 

 writers of that nation), informs us, that " only 

 3ne mass of this magnificent stone was found on 

 the shore of Taravo, half a league from the sea, 

 in the gulf of Valinco, in Corsica. It might 

 weigh, when first discovered, about 80 pounds ; 

 but it was soon beat to pieces, and dispersed 

 into the principal cabinets, so that there now 

 only exist of it small pieces, either polished or 

 unpolished. A beautiful vase, 18 inches in 

 height, is in the celebrated cabinet of M. De- 

 dree ; and his Majesty, the Emperor and King, 

 has a snuff-box of this beautiful stone. The 

 beauty of this rock, and the singular disposition 

 of its colours, engaged every possible research to 

 discover the mountain, whence the mass might 

 have rolled j but to this day they have been un- 



