tì^jtou c!‘, is, m leverai places; ¿totally excavated in thè bituminous
earth ; but generally the veins are alternate. As, above
the little hills of the valley o f Luzzane, a iloney hill ar'ffes, fo, a-
^Sff^be^rata divided,by Gtpalovo Vrilf, a larger hill is raifed.,
various matter that the torrent brings down,
; >FPon tbe utmoft .border.of the ampelite earth,
which ceafes to difcpver itfelf b etona hall o f the torrent, where
various ferruginous maffes have tumbled from above, are found
the roots and trunk o f a tree three feet in circumference reduced
■to a foffil coiti. When I was there, it flood ink s natural pofition,
and, front the foot o f the trunk, I could obferve the roots fpread,
perfectly entire.even to the fmallefl parts. Some o f thofe which
1 me» referable th&<JHqua o f Carrubbio in
W? ■ o f the nature o f coal, and. o f a very fhining
black cpipurhe
particplaiity that diflinguifhes this coal trunk, from the
g r^h:®hl# ttiI;i,,frRther fcffii wood,found in the mountains, is, its
bttle mpre than a foot above the roots, by a hatchet,
pf fpmepther iinxilar inilument, before the marine ilrata IWSpyferu IP repeated exan#n,ation o f -its fituation, and o f
Ipaves.no roopi.to doubt o f this ancient truth
fqwrated.by the torrent, run regularly
about five.feet higherthan the fituation'-.occupied by the
root?, and fppt o f this prunfc. There are rents in the root o f it
thrppgh.yyhich the bitumen has infinuated itfelf,.: It was alfo
almo# buried undey ground, when I, with my own hands
t a k i n g s o p e n view, induced by the fufpi ”
cion, which the natural fituation o f the roots raifed in me I leave
to thofe, who are more knowing than myfelf, to decide by how
ancient a hatch# this tree has been cut, and in what times thofe
lands have been covered by the waters o f a fea now far from us, and
which
which has left behind it fuçh a prodigious quantity o f exotic
Tefiacei.
T h e foffil coal, and the arhpelitic earth o f Gipalovo Vrito,-
though at feveral miles diftârice from the fea, might he made
ufeful articles, were it only for the diflillation o f fpirits, in which
the woods on. the fea coafl are fatally wafted..
Concerning the Mountain S u t i k a , and the adjacent places.-
Entering again into the road that leads to Spalatro, We turned
a little to the north, that we might not return by the fame way
by which we came. About RàBâffich are feen the ruins o f mountains
overwhelmed,, and large maffes o f marble, infulated, out
o f their natural fituation. T h e y ftand on ftrata o f niaritie earth;,
but it is not-eafy. to guefs,. whether they fell, when the waters
covered thefe places', or Were overturned by an earthquake, after
their receffion. ■ There is a great’ variety o f maribd'hhdfe^' ki-
mong thofe ruins ; and, along the roots o f the mountain o f
Sutiria,. in the deep bed1 o f the torrent, which goes 0:1 wearing
the foot o f the mountain; ' the minute breccia m a cu la tédw ith
black, is common ; and the fpotted, the brown, the White'ttnd,
black, and the peach-colbiirê'df tire nôt fare.:' T h is mountain,,
whofe top is o f breccia'’ ’cbm'pbfed ' 'of fluita’ted gravel,J llAs 'its.
middle compofed o f a calcareous and mic'aceous ftate, o f different
hardnefs and degrees,, o f a reddiih coldiir,.' morèTükàhle tS 'mineral
than calcareous’ msuntairfs.. Th' otie ftraturh "of this ftate,
which fplits into very CaiAHdinhta,' hncbmmonly brittle, I faw the-
impreffions o f T'elHtuc. Having palled this mountain, we came to -
Hamuch, or upper Mutch,\ a fthaft hamlet‘built on the 'porous
breccia, .which is not fit fo r nhble Works.' I law there' in heaps,
many plates o f marble, or ilatey calcareous ftone, brought from I.