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of Gabbro or Serpentine, crofied with calcareous 

 fpar-veins. It is red and green. But there are 

 befides feveral places in other parts of Italy where 

 the fame is to be found. 



The hills near Genoa confift, toward the coun- 

 try, of a fort of macigno; and beyond Genoa, 

 on the fea-lhore and the road to Turin, of grey 

 and black ifh limefione. 



There is fcarcely any thing to be faid of Genoa 

 in refpect to Natural Hiftory. It is a common- 

 wealth of merchants, more fond and curious of 

 gain than of plants and (tones. Dr. Rofmi y phyfi- 

 cian to an hofpital at Genoa, is the only Botanift 

 whom I have found there. He ftudied at Mont- 

 pelier, and keeps for his diverfion a little garden, 

 with fome plants. I faw here fome native gold in 

 imall feparated lamellae, faid to be wafhed from an 

 ore, found twenty miles diftant from Genoa in the 

 mountains. The city is built with much magnifi- 

 cence, but too clofe furrounded with hills ; which, 

 however, makes the climate as foft as that of 

 Rome. The profpects, the fhore, and the land- 

 fcapes hereabout, are unparalleled. 





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