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found to be dug into. The tufiiceous earth 

 is there about three or four feet deep. The 

 pumices lie immediately under it, and among 

 them this glafs is found, in confiderable 

 quantities. It has probably been turned up, 

 and brought to the furface, by the plough, 

 pr other fimilar inftruments ufed to prepare 

 the earth for fowing with corrj. 



Beyond this plain there Is a gentle de« 

 fcent of about two 'hundred feet in length, 

 at the end of which are the Stoves. What- 

 ever prepofTeffion in their favour the travel- 

 ler may have conceived from hearing fo 

 much of them, he lofes it the moment he 

 fees them. They form a group of four or 

 five caves, more like to the dens of bears 

 than the habitations of men ; and which 

 exhibit much lefs of art than the edifices 

 framed by the beaver. Every cave has an 

 opening at the bottom, through which the 

 warm and humid vapours enter, and ano- 

 ther in the top through which they pafs 

 out, I entered one of thefe, but was unable 

 tP remairx long in it, l^fs from, the heat, for 



the 



