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LETTER III. 



Verona, Ott. 5, 1771. 



1CAME by the way of Vicenza to this place; 

 therefore I entertain you firft with my Vicen- 

 tine obiervations. 



I got there the valuable acquaintance and friend- 

 mip of an able naturalift, Dr. Antonio Turra. He 

 has a fine collection of foffils, or petrifactions, 

 found in the Vicentine calcareous mountains, but 

 efpecially in the Monies Berici, and Monte Bren- 

 dola. His Herbary is likewife confiderable ; and he 

 has almoft finimed for the prefs a Flora Italica, 

 after Baron Linneus's principles. He would have 

 publifhed it, if the many difficulties which attend 

 every literary publication in Italy had not hin- 

 dered him. His infects alfo are worth feeing. 



At Valdagno, twenty Italian miles diflant from 

 Vicenza, lives Dr. Antonio Martini, a good phy- 

 fician, and an attentive collector of the natural 

 productions of his country. 



At Vicenza I had the honour to wait on the 

 BHhop Monfignor Marcs Corner. He has a rich : 



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