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pieces of native iron, one from Steyermarck> the 

 other from Johan-Georgen-Stadt, in Saxony. I 

 do not depend upon, nor anfwer for, their authen- 

 ticity. The perfon who mewed this cabinet was 

 an apothecary, a difciple of Pontedera, and pof- 

 fefied of a good collection of dry plants, petri- 

 factions, and lavas, found in the neighbourhood. 

 Among feveral other curiofities, he fhewed me, 

 i. Grey lava, fprinkled with fmall black fherl- 

 points, covered on one fide with the pretended 

 black Iceland agate, (Cronfted> Mineral. . 295) 

 found near Monte Catajo, near Padua. 2. Black, 

 very compact lava, with green fnerl-nodules, which 

 refemble the chryfolite, from the fame place. 

 3. ChryfoliteBafalt-columns, from the fame place, 

 and other Euganean hills, near Padua. 



The chemical Laboratory^ at Padua ; together 

 with the hall, and the collection of minerals, has 

 been but of late eflablifhed by the prefent pro- 

 feffbr of chemiftry, Count Marco Carburi. He 

 was born in Greece, and travelled fome years ago, 

 at the expence of the Republick, to the mines in 

 Saxony, on the Hartz, and in Sweden, where, in 

 the year 1762, I got acquainted with him at UpfaL 

 His brother was phyfician to his Sardinian Ma- 

 jefty at Turin, but has lived for the lad year at 

 Paris. 



The anatomical Theatre is fmall and dark, 

 though anatomy be, perhaps, no where better taught 



than 



