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marl, and fometimes to contain a fpecies of lufus 

 nature, refembling trees or branchy corals, with 

 round buttons like apples flicking to the branches. 

 They are neither petrified plants nor corals, but 

 accidental concretions of marl, produced like fta- 

 ladites within the marl-hills. 



The Univerfity at Pifa is diftinguifhed by many 

 learned Profefibrs. There appears at prefent a 

 Literary Review, under the title of, Giornale d 

 Letterati di Pifa. 



The Obfervatory (la Specola) at Pifa is a fine 

 building. The ProfefTor of Aftronomy, Mr. I'o- 

 mafo Perelli, and his fubftitute Abbe and Dr. Slop., 

 have a reputation, which their learning juftly de- 

 ferves. 



The Botanical Garden is fpacious, and kept in 

 good order. The Profefibr of Botany and Natu- 

 ral Hiftory, Dr. 2Y/#, lives in it; and has pub- 

 limed Hortum Pifanum, in folio, To his care is 

 likewife intruded the academical collection of Na- 

 tural Curiofities, kept in a fine faloon. The late 

 celebrated Steno, author of a treatife, De Soli do 

 infra Solidum, laid the firfl foundation of this cabi- 

 net, augmented at prefent by the valuable collec- 

 tion of fhells, belonging formerly to the late Dr. 

 CuaUieri at Florence. He was phyfician of the 

 court, and had the permiffion to appropriate to 

 himfelf the duplicates of the Grand-Duke's Gallery, 



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