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ftones are found in the vicinity of the Stoves* 

 The firft fpecies is met with about two 

 hundred feet before we arrive at them, on 

 the road from the city of Lipari j the others 

 are fcattered at a greater diftance, in the 

 fteep fide of the mountain towards the fouth. 

 One certain proof that thefe places had an- 

 ciently been wafhed by the fea, would be the 

 finding of the remains or impreflions of fea 

 animals. Thus the above-mentioned French 

 naturalift remarks that, at Etna, the lavas of 

 the ifles of the Cyclops, and thofe of the 

 mountains of Trezza, which abound in zeo- 

 lites, have certainly been covered by the 

 waters of the fea, fince, at the height of 

 more than two hundred perches above thefe 

 zeolitic lavas, immenfe quantities of fea- 

 fhells aFe found. The fame may, in like 

 manner, be obferved of the Vicentine vol- 

 canic mountains, which afford beautiful zeo- 

 lites, and alfo copious ftores of marine re- 

 mains. It is, however, certain that neither 

 Lipari, nor any of the Eolian Ifles, prefent 

 us with any vefliges of fea animals or plants. 

 I do not mean to fay that this is a phyfical 



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