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The fecond is a Mountain, which rofe out of the 
Earth in 1538. near Tozzuolo in the Kingdom of 
Naples, overwhelmed the little Town Tripergula , 
and dried up a navigable Lake named Lucrano 5 being 
now called the New Mountain , equal in Height to a 
neighbouring old one, called Monte Bar bar 0 . 
From the Circumftances attending thofe Events, he 
endeavours to prove his new Hypothefis. 
He calls to Help the feveral Eruptions of the Moun- 
tains Vefuvius and zyEtna ; and then forms his The- 
fis; viz. “ That marine Animals and Productions 
f£ (for Inftance, Shells, &c.) which are now found 
u in high Mountains, were fir(l generated in the Sea: 
“ But when thofe Mountains were raifed, by fubter- 
u raneous Fire, above the Surface of the Sea, were 
“ petrifbd fo as they now appear.” 
This Thefis Moro endeavours to fupporr, by giving 
the Detail of the 12 feveral Strata found in the Ter- 
ritories of Modena , when they are digging for 
Wells, mention'd by Woodward , Camerariusy Vallifni ~ 
eriy and Ramazzini \ whofe Remarks, as well as 
the newer ones of Whi(lon and Bourguety he will not 
allow to be fatisfaCtory $ the greateft Difficulty being 
this, that, from the Nature of fome of thofe Strata, 
it feems that the Sea has twice covered the Plain of 
Modena , now above fome Hundreds of Feet above 
the Level of the Sea 5 and that from another Stra- 
tum it may be inferred, that, in the Intervals be- 
tween thofe Overflowings of the Sea, the Land has 
been inhabited and cultivated. His Thefis he endea- 
vours tofupport, by a remarkable Paffage from Tliny * 
Book II. Chap . 87. Ingens ten arum portentum L . 
Marcio ? Sex , Julio CoJJ' % in.agro Mutinenfil Namque 
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