2&6 TRAVELS THROUGH 



the afiays of the earths and colours. The fame 

 care is taken of the workmanfliip and its improve- 

 ment. The workmen are, for the greateft part, 

 natives of Tufcany, and fubjects to the manor of 

 Doccia. The children are, from their very in- 

 fancy, by their parents, taught painting and fculp- 

 ture after the befl models ; and, for this purpofe, 

 there is a confiderable collection of prints and 

 plaifter ftatnes and buftos. I found here a painter, 

 who, at the expence of the late Emperor, had 

 travelled with ProfefTor Jacquin to America, and 

 knew many circumftances of that voyage. 



Clofe behind the magnificent buildings of this 

 manufactory is Morelto, a calcareous mountain of 

 the adjacent Apennines, bare at the top, but 

 round about its Hoping fides covered with green^ 

 fine villas, and gardens. It is to the North of Flo- 

 rence, and in winter-time now and then covered 

 with fnow. I returned from Doccia along its 

 fides, and faw by the way at Quarto a marble-faw- 

 mill, where I obferved a large block of a fpecies 

 of granites, if it may be called fo, Compound of 

 fat white and red Cornelian-coloured quartz-grains* 

 They could not tell me whence it came. At the 

 Villa dl Caftetla is a garden, which Eellonhis praifed 

 in his time as a model of good tafte. 



I have feen fome marbies and flones dug in 



Tufcany j 



