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cryftalJized as amorphous, which, without 

 having fufFered the leaft fufion, are found 

 incorporated in the pumices, glafles, and 

 enamels of Lipari, and which may he per- 

 fectly liquefied in the furnace. 



It cannot, however, be denied that the 

 generative fires of Lipari muft, at fome 

 time, have been extremely vehement; fmce, 

 according to the obfervations of M. Dolo- 

 mieu, they have even fufed granite, com- 

 pofed of quartz, feltfpar, and mica, and con- 

 verted it into pumice. 



The ancient writers have left us very in- 

 terefting and inftrudlive accounts relative to 

 the ftate of the conflagrations which in, and 

 prior to, their times had been obferved in 

 Stromboll and Vulcano; and we have made 

 ufe of them w^hen treating of thofc two 

 iflands. But w^e can fay nothing of the 

 ancient fires of Saline, and that chain of 

 rocks, which once, probably, made a part of 

 the ifland Euonimos, fmce with refpeift to 

 tliefe antiquity is totally filent ; and we Cc'.a 

 G 3 only 



