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In the channels which divide VuIcanO 

 from Lipari, and Lipari from Saline, the 

 bottom is entirely volcanic, and affords pro- 

 du61:s of the fame fpecles with the two 

 iliores. The fame is obfervable of the foot 

 of the iflands, which foot in fome fituations 

 defcends perpendicularly ; but in others has 

 a confiderable declivity, and thus enlarges 

 the circuit of the ifland. The pieces of lava 

 which I was here able to detach, did not 

 differ from thofe of the fhore, which 1 have 

 already defcribed. 



But at a greater diftance between illand 

 and ifland this was not the cafe. I made 

 my experiments in three different places. 

 The firil was between Lipari and Panaria ; 

 but here, the water being very deep, I did 

 not fucceed in my attempts to bring up any 

 ftony body from the bed of the fea, but only 

 teflaceous and cruflaceous animals alive or 

 dead, enveloped in fand and gravel, and 

 forming a fpecies of cruft more or lefs thick. 

 The fand and gravel, it is tobe obferved, were 

 volcanic. 



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