254 TRAVELS THROUGH 



Pinelli in his Lett era d Bagni di Petriulo* Rom 3, 

 17 id. 4to. 



Dr. 'Tabaram, profefibr of Anatomy ; a cele- 

 brated man, who deferves the attention and the 

 efteem of any traveller. 



Having in the defcription of profeflbr Baldaf- 

 fari's cabinet mentioned, that in the Sanefe the 

 flate is conftantly running under the limeftone, I 

 fend you Mr. Gio*ji Arduini's obfervations, made 

 in 1756, as he happened to difcover the copper 

 vein near Montieri e Bochejano, in the Sanefe, whofe 

 working and melting of copper, fiber, and blue 

 vitriol, he fuperintended for fome years. Mr. 

 Arduim has inferted in the Magazino fofcano, 

 printed at Livorno, the firfl defcription of Mon- 

 tieri, together with a map ; but this magazine 

 being dropt foon after, this Defcripfion'is incom- 

 pleat; for which reafon, the following paper. 

 which Mr. Arduim made me a prefent of when at 

 Venice, was the more agreeable to me, and will 

 be fo to you. I have only to remark upon it, that 

 Mr. Arduim 's opinion on the origin of travertine* 

 (a porous limeftone) perfectly agrees with Mr. 

 Rajfis * oil the origin of the faline marbles, which 



he 



* See his account of the fcdiments of the Bagni di San 

 near Radicofani, inferted in the Philofophical Trar.f- 



aSicns $ 



