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ginal works, and in a great number of play?, 

 which, in her tranllations from the French arc 

 exhibited at S. Angelo^ in Venice, 



After fo much literary news, there remains a 

 good deal to be faid of feveral curiofities in this 

 city. 



I mould have faid nothing of the Arfenal, 

 but its large piles of iron-guns, as it were, bring 

 me to it. They are cafl in Brefciano and Ber- 

 gamafcoy and are fo remarkably deficient, and 

 full of holes and cracks, that the government, 

 on the reprefentations of general Pattifon, who 

 .is an Englifhman, has refolved to reject them 

 .as unfit for fervice, and to procure others in 

 their place. 



Probably they will be ordered from Sweden, 

 our iron-manufactories having been jultly and 

 {Irongly recommended by our conful, Mr. De- 

 lort'he. The iron ore in Brefciano and Bergamafco 

 being the fame as the iron-coloured which we have 

 in Sweden, (Crovft. Mtmrahg. .203, 211, & 

 212.) or partly the fame {reel-ore (Stablftein^ or 

 Pfliniz) which yields the Steyermarck-fteel (Cron- 

 Jled. Min. . 207.) the defects and bad quality 

 of thofe guns, are merely to be afcribed to an im- 

 perfect fmelting and manipulation. 



Ipafs 



