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true form of volcanic craters, fo much have 

 the matters ejected from them interfeded 

 each other, and confufedly intermixed. 

 The long and unkriown feries of years that 

 has elapfed fince thefe eruptions, muft, no 

 doubt, have contributed to increafe the con- 

 fufion. Excepting, therefore, fome few 

 flat places, and practicable declivities, which 

 the inhabitants have rendered cultivable by 

 great labour, Lipari is a ruinous pile of 

 horrid precipices, rugged cliffs, and enor-» 

 mous mafles ; and there is no fummlt, or 

 projecting part of a mountain, which does 

 not exhibit manifeft indications of its fu- 

 ture fall and deftrudion. The materials of 

 which thefe ruins are formed are pumices, 

 enamels, and glafles, which I ihall not de« 

 fcribe, becaufe they are partly the fame, 

 and partly extremely analogous to thofe of 

 which I have already given the defcription. 



Some of the natives, by the accounts they 

 gave me, excited my curiofity to vilit a ca- 

 vern fituated in a fniall plain called La 

 Valle, about a quarter of a mik to the weft 



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