2,02 TRAVELS THROUGH 



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7. Cinnabar-ore, from the fame place. 



8. A large petrified echinites, comprefled into 

 an oblique form by the fuperincumbent weight of 

 the ftratum in which it was found. 



9. A large turtle-fhell, with longitudinal flripes, 

 refembling the Buccimtm Harpa. 



The Profeflbr of Chemiftry, Mr. Nicola Brancki 

 della Torre, has of late begun a collection of mi- 

 nerals and chemical preparations, chiefly intended 

 for his lectures. 



The road from Pifa to Leghorn goes, i. near the 

 before-mentioned calcareous hills. The land after- 

 wards becomes, 2. plain, and is covered by a 

 brownim fea-fand, which continues towards the 

 fhore; but, 3. five miles on that fide of Leghorn 

 is monte Nero, where a white foap-ftone (fmeflis, 

 Italian pietra di Sarto, becanfe employed by tay- 

 lors for drawing) is digging. 4. Near the more 

 at Leghorn, are fome hills, confifting of a grey or 

 rather grey-yellowim calcareous tophus, which is 

 filled with fmall microfcopical fhells and litho- 

 phytes. The waves of the fea diffolve thefe ftones, 

 which caufes thefe fmall fhells to be mixed with 

 the fea-fand, in which Abbate Fontana has found 

 thefe microfcopical lithophytes, and fome lituites, 

 In a quarry of a fimilar tufo, near the hofpital S. 

 Jacopo at Leghorn (caya di S. Jacoto), are found 

 plenty of greater Bucardites, 



There 



