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my original intention, to explore, likewife, 

 the Internal parts of the Ifland ; I, firft, af- 

 Cended to the fummit of the Monte San 

 Angelo, fituated to the north of the city of 

 LIpari ; this being the higheft mountain in 

 the ifland. Here the whole of the ifland 

 prefented itfelf, at once, to my view, and I 

 could perceive that, far from having a coni- 

 cal figure, fuch as Is that of Stromboli, 

 and in a certain manner of Vulcano, it is 

 compofed of groups of broken and half- 

 deftroyed mountains, confufedly heaped to- 

 gether; which give it a moft irregular 

 appearance. It is evident that the volcanic 

 fires have raged in many places, and that, 

 from their too great proximity to each 

 other, they have not been able to form 

 thofe diftind: cones which are fo obfervable 

 in Vefuvius and on Etna. But the 

 matters ejeded by the fuperior volcanos, 

 pouring upon thofe which iflued from the 

 lower, have produced in every part confu- 

 fion and diforder. From the fummit of 

 Etna we may difcover a multitude of fub- 

 jacent craters, well charaderifed ; but from 

 B 4 that 



