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both round or rather oval, feparated by high 

 ground two Italian miles in extent. They have 

 been undoubtedly funnels of this volcano, and 

 monte Cavo or Albano, which are deftitute of fun- 

 nels; feveral other lava and cinericious hills are 

 but remaining parts of their former high-tower- 

 ing periphery after it funk, and produced the be- 

 fore-mentioned lakes. 



Monte Albano is about twelve Italian miles dif- 

 tant from Rome. Its periphery is about fixteen 

 Italian miles. It is like Vefuvius feparated into 

 two parts in the monies Tufculani and monies Al- 

 bani. 



Monies Yufculam are to mcnte Albano in the fame 

 proportion as monte Somma to Vefuvius. 



Monies Albani have the two higheft tops, called 

 I. Monte Algido, mentioned by Horace; and 2, 

 Monte Cavo, or properly Mcnte Allano. On this 

 hill are the ruins of an ancient round temple of 

 Jupiter Latialis, built with volcanic tufo, mixed 

 with white garnet-like merl. Towards the Lago 

 d* Albano I faw on its fides, as in many other parts 

 of this country, plenty of Narciffus-poeticus. 



The volcanic and Piperino hills around monte 

 Cavo are bare and deftitute of wood as the hill of 

 the Camaldules near Vefuvius. One of thefe hills 

 is called monte Porno, another monte Compatro, a 

 fhird feparated from - the chief mountain monte 

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