has no kind o f refemblance to the valley o f Pepigne, which,
am.dft its horrour, is rather pleafant. There a man habitually
melancholly and who chofe to indulge his gloomy hate of
mind, rmght fet up h.s hab.tation ; but, in the noify horrour of
the Cettina, buried between immenfe rocks, no man could live,
but one= abandonded to defpair, an enemy to light, to focietv,
and to himfelf. The waters that precipitate from a height of
above a hundred and fifty feet, form a deep majeftick found,
which u heightened by the echo refounding between the fteep
and naked marble banks. Many rocks tumbled down, which
impede the courfe o f the river after its fall, break tfe waves
by the i CMU m° re l0fty and f°Undin2-' Their froth,
by the violence o f the repercuffion, flies offin fmall white oar
tides, and is raifed in fucceffive clouds, which by the agitated
air are fcattered over the moift valley where the mys o f tie fun
feldom penetrate to ratify them. When thefe clouds afcend direffly
upwards, the inhabitants expetft the Scircuo, or fouth
e wmd, and their obfervation never fails. Twn I -i n
* .n d , a, i f f ^ where the
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earth, where hoes and graft gr„w , * , olh„ r f "
and infulated. While ,„y com p,„ i„ „ w l! d„ w; H | B
¡ ¡« „ .p ie c e , Plate XI. I had thne .„ongh , 0 the d r f8" "
«on o f it, and did not negledt ex,n ,i„e a * mm Wmm I f»n»d. v „ y H f!■™
Ochthus, wbofe grains are connefted by a iW f n a r r ,
fpreading like net-work; and a beautiful k 'L r M m B
Breccia with large white fpots, and ftreaks of lively B R
wonid be fi, fo, any noble w „ ,k. Tlle Motlaechi'whi f o ve1
me here a, g„,de,, feenaed Cllrioo, „ d ‘ f f
I had before met with Thp.. • j • ■ ° nY
y examined with great attention,
the
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