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LETTER XIX. 



Florence^ May 23, 1772. 



THE (tones employed in buildings, decora- 

 tions, and pavings, are natural hints of 

 the nature of the neighbouring hills and quarries. 

 I have followed them at Florence*, and can accord- 

 ingly give you the following account of fome 

 quarries. 



i. Cave di Macigno di Fiefole. Fiefole is an old 

 Etrurian city, fome miles diftant from Florence to 

 the North, fituated between fome macigno-hills. 

 The ruins of this place have ferved to build Flo- 

 rence in the adjacent plains. There remains at 

 Fiefole a piece of an old Etrufcan wall, confiding 

 in large fquare-cut ftones of. macigno, which are put 

 together without any cement. The prefent quar- 

 ries of macigno near Fiefole are fituated on the hill, 

 Called Ceceri, and in another over-againft to the 

 fouth-weft, called Settignano. All the other hills 

 .hereabout confift likewife of macigno, bordering 



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