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readied, In that part, the confines of the 

 ifland ; for he fuddenly perceives the fea, 

 about four hundred and fixty feet below him, 

 as near as the eye can meafure. Taking 

 his way to the fouth, he, then, difcovers fe- 

 veral warm fprings, which fupply the Baths 

 of Lipari, of equal antiquity with the Stoves, 

 but, like them, now almoft forfaken ; and, 

 proceeding in the fame direQion, meets 

 again with a prodigious quantity of decom- 

 pofed lavas, fimilar to thofe of the Stoves, 

 exhibiting the fame varying colours, and 

 coated in different places with crufts of ful- 

 phate of lime. 



When the naturalift confiders, and unites 

 in his mind, thefe prodigious aggregations 

 of decompofed lavas, which occupy an area 

 of feveral miles, he will no doubt be afto- 

 niflied to find there is any volcanized coun- 

 try in Europe, in which the fulphureous 

 vapours, iffuing from fubterranean confla- 

 grations, have aded through fuch an exten- 

 five fpace. Thofe of Solfatara di Pozzuolo, 

 which have whitened its crater, and which 



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