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mice-ilone. I alfo found many flones about the ilze of a man's 

 fill, rough, on one fide blue, which appearance, I imagine, 

 they have got from heat, and being in contad with fome 

 mineral. Thefe ftones are fcattered over the whole mountain, 

 one or two of which 1 have fent you, with fome others. 



After I had got up from the bottom of the crater, 1 could not 

 help viewing it with admiration, from its wonderful flrudure 

 and regularity. Here I found an excavation cut through the 

 mountain and rocks to an amazing depth, and with as muck 

 regularity and proportion of its conftituent parts, as if it had 

 been planned by the hand of the moft Ikilful mathematician. I 

 wifhedmuch to remain on the mountain all night, to examine 

 its feveral ridges with more attention next day ; but 1 could not 

 prevail on my companion to ftay, and therefore thought it 

 advifable to accompany him. 



' I obferved the motion of the clouds on this mountain to be 

 very lingular. Although there are feveral parts on it higher 

 than the mouth of the crater, yet I faw their attradion was 

 always to it. After entering on its eaft or windward fide, they 

 funk a confidcrable way into it ; then, mounting the oppofitc 

 lide, and. whirling round the north-w^eft fide, they ran along a 

 ridge, which tended nearly north-eaft, and afterwards funk 

 nito a deep ravin, which divided this ridge from another on the 

 north-weft corner of the mountain, and the highefton it, lying 

 in a direction nearly fouth and north. They keep the courfe of 

 this ridge to the fouth end, and then whirl off weft in their 

 natural courfe. 



1 took my departure from the mountain with great relu£lance.- 

 Although I encountered many difficulties to get up, yet it 

 amply rewarded me for all my toil ; but I had not time to^ 

 examine it with, that attention. 1 wiftied. When I got on tha 



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