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bary ; the fined being exported to England -, and 

 the middle fort to Germany, Holland, and France. 

 The iiland Elba is remarkable on account of its 

 iron-mines. It is the property of the Prince of 

 Piombino, under an annual recognizance of a 

 certain quantity of iron-ore, to be delivered for 

 the Grand-Duke to Porto-Fcrrajo. The moun- 

 tains of this Ifland confifl of Granite, which partly 

 is violet and very fine, becaufe its feld-fpath forms 

 large oblong fquare cubes of a violet colour. It 

 is employed in the pedeftal of the Equeftrian fta- 

 tue before the Santiffima Anncnziata at Florence, 

 with this infcription, MAJESTATE TANTUM ; and 

 in the under incruftations in the famous Capella di 

 5> Lorenzo. The ore is not found in veins, but 

 in a large hill or mafs of folid ore, furrounded 

 with Granite- mountains. For that reafon they dig 

 it not in expenfive mines, but in open quarries. 

 It is a fact, that leveral mountains in Sweden, 

 Lapland, and Siberia, likewife entirely confifl of 

 iron-ore > and fome hills in Campiglia, and other 

 places in Tulcany, are either entirely, or in a 

 great meafure, of the fame nature. Branches 

 of thefe iron-mafles continue running between the 

 hills of Maffa di Maremma. The fimilarity of the 

 ores, and of their running, gives fome probability 

 that the Tufcan iron-hills are but branches of the 

 large iron-mafs in Elba, being to be confidercd a 



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