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27. Petrified flint-like wood, in large pieces j 

 common near Montfcrrat in Piedmont. 



28. Quartz- cry ftals, of a remarkable length ; 

 from the Montagne de Chamonyx in Savoy. 



29. Marmo di Gtjfino, a grey marble, fpotted 

 by petrified fhells j from Ga/mo near furin -, com- 

 monly employed in columns. 



30. Bardilio di Valle di Jcri> a fine Piedmontefc 

 marble. 



31. Bardilio di P<efana, of a paler colour; from 

 Piedmont. 



32. Alabaftro fiorito ; from Bufca in Piedmont. 



33. Verde di Sufa is a polzevera ; from Sufa in 

 Piedmont ; white and green, fimilar to the Marmo 

 Verde antico. 



1 got likewife acquainted at Turin with Mr. 

 Ignazio Somis, Phyfician of the King, and Pro- 

 feffo.r of Phyfic. 



P. Beccaria, a Piarift, is Profeflbr of Natural 

 Philofophy, and known abroad by his valuable 

 Treatife on Electricity, which appears at prefent 

 in a new edition. 



Dr. Charles Lewis Bellardi^ a phyfician, has in 

 his Inaugural- Differtation^ printed at Turin, 1764, 

 among feveral curious phyfical objects, treated de 

 motu Plant* fenjitiva. He is a good botanift, 

 9 difciple of Dr. 



