2O TRAVELS THROUGH 



Jules lie buried in a bed of dark-brown earth, 

 in the ifland of Farroe. May not this earth-ftra- 

 "turn at Farroe be likewife of a volcanic kind ? 



The Academia d* Agricultura^ at Vicenza, is 

 planned out for the improvement of hufbandry, 

 'the culture of filk (greatly flourifhing hereabout), 

 'and ceconomy in general. Dr. Turra is its per- 

 petual fecretary. 



Verona is a very delightful place. Here is 

 much good-breeding, much chearfulnefs, and 

 much tafte in feveral parts of literature. The 

 road from Padua hither is undoubtedly the moft 

 pleafmg in Lombardy. On the right hand, you 

 fee, at fome diftance, the Alps, which feparate 

 Italy and Germany, or the Paduan, Vicentine, and 

 Veronefe hills ; but on the lefc, a flat, rich culti- 

 vated country, extending to the Apennines, be- 

 hipd Bologna. I do not entertain you at this 

 time with the Vicentine and Veronefe mountains, 

 belonging to the chain of Alps which feparate 

 Germany from Italy ; but, in general, I can tell 

 you, that they are of a calcareous nature, furnifh 

 "fine red, yellow, and variegated marbles, and 

 'have been mattered in former times by violent 

 volcanos, as evidenced by a great variety of la- 

 'vas, and other volcanic productions. Near Rove- 

 'redo and the Tfickntim, is Monte Baldo *, famous- 



* They dig in Movie Baldo, a yellow violet fpotted mar- 

 ble, rcfejub'iing the Brocatello di Siena. The green colour- 



