l82 TRAVELS THROUGH 



Some Italian miles on this fide of Veletri the 

 read goes over the wide ftretching foot of montc 

 Albano, near Lago dfAlbano, and dcfcends fuddenly 

 into the plain which extends to Rome, and is but 

 now and then interfered by hills. Thefe hills arc 

 compofed of ferruminated yellow, red, grey, black^ 

 or white volcanic afhes, with the common cal- 

 cined or farinaceous garnet-like Iherls -, and yield 

 in the roads, after rainy weather, great quantities 

 of the black magnetic iron-fand, or fmall ftierl- 

 cryftals. 



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