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tke Adige; and the Veronefe mountains, that moAly 
abound with lava^ are thofe of the eaft and north -eaft 
quarter, about the confines of the Vicentine territory, 
in the common road from Verc_ia to Vicenza, I firfl 
perceived vulcanic effedts in the environs of Caldiero, 
where the hot fprings rife. The immediate hills about 
them, which are ifolated in the plain, though of little 
elevation, are almoft exclufively vulcanic ; as are likewife 
the neighbouring points of the Alpine branches before 
mentioned. None of the writers on the baths of Caldi- 
ero take any notice of thefe fa6ts, though they feem al— 
moft infeparable from the confideration of the origin andi 
properties of thofe waters. The fame defeat is obferva- 
ble alfo in the writers on the hot fprings near Viterbo, 
which are in the centre of vulcanic hills, and on the other 
^herm<^ near Radicofani, in the confining part of the 
Tufcan flate, where, as I before obferved, vulcanic effe6ts 
alfo abound,. This neglect indeed is but too common to= 
other writers- on T^hernue and mineral waters in general ; 
phylical topography feldom farming a part of their in- 
quiries, however pertinent and even necelTary in itfelf. 
Having often had occafion to fpeak of Abano in the 
eourfe of this paper, I cannot conclude it without men- 
tioning an extraordinary phaenomenon in, the animal 
kingdom, which is obfervable there. Notwithftanding 
the heat of thofe waters, in which Fahrenheit’s thermo- 
meter rifes to eighty-eight degrees, a particular fpecies of 
buccinum breeds and lives in them, and is found in great 
plenty. It is of the fluviatile kind, and feems to be pe- 
culiar 
