J04 TRAVELS THROUGH 



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LETTER IX. 



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Naples, Jan. 13, 1772. 

 3- . ^ ' y ' /; 



TH E few weeks which I have been in this 

 fchool of the volcanos have not been fuffi- 

 cient to give me full and compleat ideas of Vefu- 

 vius, Solfatara, and other fuch curiofities of this 

 country. I want to have them improved, en- 

 larged, confirmed, or refuted, by new and repeated 

 obfervations. I lhall therefore defer my own 

 obfervations, and give you an account of thofe 

 ingenious perfons with whom I am already become 

 acquainted. 



Firft, then, I tell you, that I had the fingular 

 pleafure to meet here with Mr. Guettard^ from 

 Paris ; an excellent Natural ift, and an old ac- 

 quaintance of mine at Paris. We are much 

 together j and, what is flattering to me, I fee 

 our obfervations are, for the moft part, corrc- 

 fponding. 



Mr. Serrao, phyfician of the court of Naples, 

 is a man of great knowledge, not only in phyfic 



but 



