APPENDIX. 



No. VII. Reineggs on the Mineralogy of the Archi- 

 pelago. 



[Scelta di opuscoli interessanti. Milan 1777, 8vo. vol. xxxii.*] 



The mountains of Istria are connected with those of Car- 

 niola and Stiria, of a moderate height, but rather precipitous. 

 They entirely consist of limestone, with a prodigious quan- 

 tity of nummulites. Statues have been formed of it, in which 

 the shells produce the effect of marks of the small-pox. The 

 strata are strangely varied, sometimes horizontal, sometimes 

 vertical. They are mostly clothed with olives and vines. 



Further on is formed a siliceous sandstone, which after- 

 wards changes for white limestone, which continues to the 

 neighbourhood of Ragusa. 



The mountains of Dalmatia are of the same kind, being 

 mostly composed of a compact limestone, capable of polish. 



Near Cattaro appears a kind of gneiss among the fissures 

 of the limestone. Towards Scutari the mountains are gra- 

 nite. The Pasha presented to him some medals of iron, 

 which he says may be as ancient as the time of Lycurgus f. 



The chain of mountains of Epirus continues into Arcadia, 

 where the summits are very high. 



Most of the isles, as Cefalonia for example, have a high 

 mountain in the middle, which gradually lowers towards the 

 sea. Mylo presents warm sulphureous waters. Some of the 

 hills of this isle are calcareous, others of a brown marly clay. 

 There is also found a fine talcaceous earth. The subterranean 

 fires, mentioned by Tournefort, no longer exist; but there 

 are vestiges of volcanoes towards the north, where the hills 

 are granitic, with basalt and vitrifications. There is a hill 



* This paper being short, and little known, it was thought proper to pre- 

 serve it here. 



f This is truly singular, as such medals have always formed a desideratum 

 in cabinets, and we can hardly suspect a mineralogist of mistaking the metal. 



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