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Naples, fince that of Count Cbiaramonte alia larra, 

 nearPortici, has been in decay, and Prince Fran- 

 caroitta has ceafed to keep exotical plants. 



The Marquis Abbate Gagliani is known by 

 fome agreeable and interefting performances on 

 politics and commerce, which he published at 

 Paris. But I take notice of him on account of 

 his knowledge in the Natural Hifto-ry of Vefuvius. 

 The beft Map of the kingdom of Naples has 

 been, by his orders, engraved at Paris. It con- 

 fifts of four plates, which in the royal library at 

 Naples are fold for fourteen carlini. To his 

 advice it is owing, that the excavations at Pom- 

 peja are not filled up like thofe at Herculaneum ; 

 and that the defcriptions and engravings of the 

 Herculanefe Antiquities may be had at prefent in 

 the royal library. 



Padre Giammaria dclla 2Vrf, profeflor of natu- 

 ral philofophy, has given feveral editions of his 

 Defcription of Vefuvius. The laft is a French 

 one, under the title of, Hiftoire et Phenomenes dit 

 yefuve, expofis per k Pere della 'Torre, Naples, 

 1771, 8vo. He has publifhed befides, Nuovc 

 efavazi'oni intorno la ftoria naturale. Nap. 1763, 

 Svo. nnfwered by Abbate Font ana at Florence. He 

 pretends to have found by his microfcapical lenti- 

 cular glafles, melted into that form by a candle, 

 that the globules in the blood are annular and 



perforated ; 



