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kept in his library. Their being publifhed 

 would certainly prove an advantage to the fci- 

 ences, efpecially if his mafterly hand fhould 

 bring them to due and fyftematical connection. 

 He was fo kind as to allow me to perufe them ; 

 and whenever, in the Paduan, Vicentine, and 

 Veronefe territories, I had an opportunity to 

 examine the places by myfelf which he had ob- 

 ferved before, I have found nature and his cb- 

 fervations exactly correfponding. By this means, 

 I am the more convinced, that the calcareous 

 hills, in the Paduan, Vicentine, and Veronefe re- 

 gions, belonging to the Alps, which feparate 

 Germany and Italy, are constantly, as in Auftria, 

 Steyer, and Crayn, fuperincumbent to flate, on 

 which they have been accumulated. He afiures 

 me likewife, that, according to Mr. ^argioni Toz- 

 zettfs obfervations in Tufcany, Prof. Baldaf- 

 fan's treatiles in the A&a Academic Sienenjis t and 

 his own infpeclion, the nature of a part of 

 the Apennines is exactly the very fame. Evert 

 the faline marbles at Carrara and Seravezza are 

 faid to be fuperincumbent on flate. I hope to 

 verify ail this by my own obfervations, recapitu- 

 lating in a few words, that flate is conflantly run- 

 ning under thefe limeftone-hills in the Venetian 

 State; that, from beneath the calcareous beds, 

 even from beneath the flate, there have been in 



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