IK THE ISLAND OF CORSICA. 



of 130 feet, and is as ftraight and fmooth as a reed. 

 Its rofin is fine and tranfparent, its wood very hard, 

 and is exceedingly well adapted to the purpofesof lliip- 

 building and the conftrudlion of houfes. Fruit-trees 

 are but indifferent, except the fig, almond, and chef- 

 nut, which fucceed every where. 



Cagna and Graddaccio are the higheft mountains of 

 Corhxa. On the latter is a lake of conliderable mag- 

 nitude ; the circumjacent territory is covered with 

 wood. If you would get a notion of the horrors of the 

 Thebaic deferts, you mould vifit the vale of Cruzzini ; 

 but not as I did, who had nearly paid for it with my 

 life, as I fell with my horfe down a fteep of more than 

 twenty toifes, among nothing but rocks. 



After the invertigations I have made into the nature 

 of the terrain in the parts about Antibes, into the fpe- , 

 cies of the woods, Hones, ftrata and even the produces 

 of the foil, I am more and more confirmed in my hy- 

 pothecs that Corlica, has been fevered from Provence 

 by one of thofe violent convullions of the globe, which 

 mull have frequently happened in' the remote ages of 

 antiquity. But the analogy extends not to the cha- 

 racter of the inhabitants ; for the Provencal is as active 

 as the Corfican is flothful. 



GRIMALDI 



A TRUE STORY. 



During the civil war of Genoa, an Italian, of 

 the name of Griinaldi, fled to Pifa. Money was the 

 only thing in the univerfe that could boafl: of his 

 friendfhip anc^ efleern. He maintained^ that fortune 



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