( ^70 



ftOnes in a public road. I was fomewliat 

 furprifed at this ; and, on making enquiries 

 of fome peafants on the ipot, they told me, 

 that fome fhepherds had brought that glafs 

 from the grottos round the fountains of the 

 garden of N. U. Barbarizo, at a little dif- 

 tance from the Church of Valfanzlbio, and, 

 finding it i^felcfs, had thrown it away there. 

 I repaired, accordingly, to the place they 

 pointed out, and found that it was, without 

 the leaft doubt, of the fame kind. I, after- 

 wards, learned from the keepers of the gar- 

 den, that it had been procured from the fco- 

 ricS of the furnaces of Murano, near Venice. 



I fhall conclude this account of the vol- 

 canic fpecimens of the Euganean mountains 

 ihown me by Father Terzi, in his cabinet 

 of natural curiofitles, with mentioning one 

 more, which in his opinion was a volcanic 

 glafs, and had been found detached on Mon- 

 te Merlo. To this, likewife, i canuot refufe 

 the appellation of glafs. It is, like the for- 

 mer, black, compadt, and heavy. As I did 

 not go to the place where it was found, I 



cannot 



