66 TRAVELS THROtrOM 



LETTER VL 



Bologna y Nov. 2 6, 1771* 



1WENT from Venice on the Po, and on ca- 

 nals, by the way of Cbiozza and Ferrara 9 

 through a flat, well-cultivated country, which con- 

 tinues a mile beyond Bologna^ where the Apen- 

 nines begin. I ft aid two days at Cbiozza, and 

 faw there a part of the botanic collection of Dr< 

 Bartolomeo Eottari, which is well furnimed with 

 fuci and other Adriatic fea-plants, whereof feve- 

 ral feemed to be new ones. His collection of 

 marine bodies, fhellsj lithophytes, and fertulari, 

 &:c. is excellent ; as likewife his collection of feve- 

 ral microicopical fhells, nautilites, and lithophytes, 

 of the neighbouring fand more. This polite and 

 learned man deferves a vifit from you. The fhort 

 flay I made in that place was fufficient to make 

 him my friend. He has written feveral Diflerta- 

 tions on the Natural Hiflory, or rather the Flora 

 and Fauna, of his country, which are worth print- 

 ing* You will find him ppfleffed of a library, not 



numerous^ 



