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Extentam tumefecit humum^ ceu fpiritus oris 
Eendere vejtcam folet^ aut direpta bicornis 
Eerga capri ; tumor ille loci permanfit^ et alti 
Collls habet Jpeciem^ longoque induruit avo. 
The vulcanic hills immediately round Ifenchaux in Ve- 
lay afFedl alfo the fame forms; but as they are mixed 
with other hills of a different form, and the country 
about them is broken and irregular, they do not produce 
fo lingular an effedt as the Euganean hills, which fud- 
denly rife from a perfedl level. I am informed, that there 
is a limilar, though fmaller group of ifolated vulcanic 
hills in a plain of Dalmatia, near Colfovo ; and another 
group of hills, nearly of the fame forms, in the county 
of Down, in Ireland, and called the Mourn Hills ; which, 
like thofe near Padua, conlift, as I am informed, mohly 
of granite and lava. The Euganean hills have, more- 
over, a fuperficial and partial covering of llaty and cal- 
careous Jirata^ of pofterior origin, and that manifeft no 
marks of having fuffered by fire. Such Jlrata flightly 
cap mount V enda, which is the highefl among thefe hills ; 
though of no very confiderable elevation, meafuring 
only about 252 French toifes above the Venetian La- 
gunes, according to abbe Toaldo, profeffor of aftronomy 
at Padua, who lately, at my requeft, obligingly took its 
elevation from the obfervatory at Padua. From the lava 
and granite mixed together in the Euganean hills, they 
bear an affinity with thofe of Auvergne and Velay; but 
differ from them by the fuperincumbent unburnt Jlrata 
of Lime-ftone. This they call ScagUa, or Scagliola, from 
its 
