io6 TRAVELS THROUGH 



title of, Dom. Ciritti ad Botanic&s inftitutwnes hi- 



trfduftio, Ed. 2. Napoli, 1771, 4to. 



P. Maeftro Antonio Minaji, a Dominican priefr, 

 is a good naturalift, and. an unwearied obferver. 

 Pity it is, that his fituation, and the oppreffing ig- 

 norance of his fuperiors, put him under fo many 

 difficulties, and almoft under an impoflibility, to 

 iUuftrate the Natural Hiftory of Calabria. Being 

 born there, and befides that a clergyman, he could 

 iafely travel over a country, in which any other 

 obierver would make but a fhort way. He has 

 made many curious obfervations upon feveral forts 

 of fpiders, upon the currents in the Mediterra- 

 nean, the Faro at Meffina, and , the Scylla and 

 Charybdjs; and he has produced paper, linen, 

 and other manufactures, by the fibres of the 

 pulpous leaves of the dgave Americana. His are 

 the greater part of the Remarks on the Natural 

 Hiilory of Tarento, which are inferted in the Mar- 

 quis Carduccfs tranflation of the Delizie Tarentine, 

 cperapoftuma di Tommafo Nicolo d* Aquino, Napoli, 

 1771, 4 to. 



Abbate Nicola Pacifico is a good mathematician, 

 and learned in the fcience of infecls and plants. 

 Befides fome collections of that kind, he keeps 

 all' ivfrefcata, where he lives, a fmall botanical gar- 

 den. This is the only garden of that nature at 



Naples, 



