TRAVELS THROUGH 



afterwards red ones, with inclofed fragments of 

 Cornua Ammonis * ; and at laft grey ones in 

 large horizontal ftrata, of a fomewhat fcaly and 

 faline contexture f. Along the road and the 

 concomitant Adige-river, towards Newmark, I 

 obferved vaft quantities of loofe ftones ; as, 



1. Red porphyry fpotted with white, fimilar to 

 the Bergamafco Sarres, which I. confider as a fpe- 

 cies of lava. 



2. Black porphyry, with oblong fpots, fimilar 

 to the Serpentine antico. 



3. Grey Granite or Granitello. 



4. Between Walfhmichel and Newmark, I faw 

 fragments of the porphyry hills beyond Newmark, 

 which I (hall prefently defcribe. 



To the right beyond this place, there are con- 

 fiderable wide-ftretching porphyry- mountains ; con- 

 fifting of, i. Black Porphyry, with white tranf- 

 parent round fherl-fpots. 2. Black fpotted, with 

 red feld-fpath. 3. Red fpotted white. The red 

 fpecies the fame as the Bergamafco-farres, except 



This Is the common red Veronefe marble, called HkeVvife 

 JBreccia roffa di Feraita* In the fame traft they have of late dif- 

 covered a fine yellow marble, called Gia/lo di Verona. 



f The msnit Bttte, celebrated ^or its plants, is of this 

 kind. 



that 



