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aqueous folution of bafaltes, and to prove that this 

 bafalt-fpecies had rather an aqueous than a fiery 

 origin. In the yard before tke Mufeum in the 

 capitol, to the left of the door, is an Ifis made 

 of this bafaltes. 



5. Bafaltes Orient alls ^ fafciis granitofis^ the 

 common black bafaltes fafciated with large ftripes 

 of red Granite, blended and joined to the bafaltes 

 without any vifible feparation, not as the pebbles 

 in a breccia, or as fifiiires healed up and filled 

 with Granite, but as if both the bafaltes and Gra- 

 nite had been fluid and dried together. This 

 fort differs from the preceding in the clofer con- 

 nection of the Granite-particles, which appeared 

 feparately in the above defcribed. The two wa- 

 ter-fpouting Sphinxes, at; the gradini or flairs 

 to the capitol, are fuch bafaltes with Granite- 

 ftripesj one having an ear of red Granite, and both 

 having large tranfverfe ilripes. if we do not 

 with fome Italians fuppofe that even Granites can 

 rpe produced by fire, we are forced to confider this 

 fpecies as produced by water. However, I dare 

 not decide any thing. Either may be pofiible. 

 Rerum mihi natura perfuajit nihil de fe mcredibik 



6. Bafaltes nigerrimus maculis ex Hornblende viri- 

 The Hone-cutters and dealers call it 



Pielra. 



