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for. its rare plants, defcribed by Mr. Seguier, in his 

 flora Veronenfi, when he lived with the celebrated 

 Maffei, at Verona, before he went to Nifmes. 

 Another hill, Monte Bolca, in the Veronefe, is 

 equally famous, on account of its numerous pe- 

 trifactions and fine ichthyolites. 



Spada defcribed, in Corporum lapidefafforum agri 

 Veronenfis Catalogo Veronae, 1744. 4/0. his collec- 

 tion of petrifactions, which I have feen at Mr. 

 Seguier's, at Nifmes, who acquired it after the 

 owner's death, and augmented it very much. 

 An apothecary, Mr. Giulio Cefare Moreni, at 

 Verona , has like wife a rich collection of the Eolca- 

 filhes and petrifactions ; together with a confider- 

 able Herbary of Alpine plants, of Monte Baldo, 

 which probably will be bought by the Archduke 

 of Tufcany , Mr. Moreni, by his private circum- 

 flances, being forced to fell them. Among the pe- 

 trified fifties of this collection, is the flying-fifh, fome 

 Brafilians, and fuch as are not found in the Adri- 

 atic or the Mediterranean fea ; the Pinna Ma-^ 

 rina, bones of exotic animals, and foreign plants, 

 petrified and moulded in calcareous flate, which,^ 

 by friction, gives a difagreeable fmell. Mr. Mo* 

 reni pretends to have found on Monte Baldo feveral 



ing earth, or green painters clay, is dug near Brontonico, 

 on the northern fide of .Monte Baldo, and is a confiderable 

 of trade. 



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