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other authors ; and in the prefent work I 

 certainly iliall not depart from a method 

 which appears to me beil adapted to en- 

 large the limits of our knowledge of nature, 

 and iacreafe the treafare of ufeful fcience. 

 With this view, therefore, I fhall add the 

 following brief refledions ; 



Though the fea is now fome miles di- 

 ftant from the mountains of Padua, it is 

 beyond all doubt that it anciently wafhed 

 them ; as is proved by the calcareous car- 

 bonates, and their horizontal ftratifications, 

 befides the marine fhells found on them, 

 and mentioned by many authors. It 

 feems equally indubitable, from the ob- 

 fervations of Sir J Strange and the Abbe 

 Fortis *, that this group of low mountains 

 and hills was once fo many volcanic iilands, 

 refembling thofe of Lipari, Ponza, Santo- 

 rine, and innumerable others of the fame 



* Memorla Geografico-Fifica intorno la vera fitu- 

 azione dell' Ifole Elettridi degli Antichi A Me- 

 moir relative to the true fituation of the Ifles Eledrides 

 of the Ancients. 



kind ; 



