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its metallic veins, to which they feem to belong 

 as ramifications. The fiffures of the foiid lime- 

 ftone, which are rilled with volcanic materials, do * 

 likewife now and then contain metals. This ap- 

 pears at Scbioj and {hall be taken notice of in 

 the defcription of the volcanos. Commonly there 

 is no ore or vein to be found in the uppermoifc 

 flrata of the calcareous Alps, which are fhivery 

 and lamellated. The following break through 

 the undermoft compact and found limeftone. 



1. The old filver-mines in a heavy fpath in 

 Monte di S. Catharina in Tretto. 



2. In Monte di Trifa, Monte Narro, Monte di 

 Caftetto di Pieve, near Scbio , and in feveral other 

 hills towards Recoaro to the weft, compact lime- 

 ftone mixed with volcanic productions ; and fbme 

 veins and old mines, yielding lead, filver, and 

 copper-ore, in a ponderous fpar, with pyrites, 

 manganefe, and blend. 



3. In Monte Sivellina, near Recoaro, found and 

 hard limeftone without any vifible ftratum ; and 

 petrifactions and old mines in a lead-vein ; and 

 coarfc teflelated lime fpar, with manganefe and 

 amethifts. 



4. In Valk di Gorno in the Bergamafco, lead- 

 ore and blende. 



3: Of 



