been extracted, that had accidentally taken fire, two years before,
and were (till burning. This little volcano had many o f the
characters o f the Solfatera o f Pozzuoli. Kempfer, in his voyage
to Japan, has taken notice o f a volcano, that had its origin from
the cafual accenfioti o f a mine o f foible coal.
A fmall wood, hot far from hence, produces In the autumn
and fpring an enormous' fpecies o f Fungus, that perfectly refembles
the Carrarife, upon which the learned Sig. Merffli Pro-
feifor o f Botany in the Univerfity o f Padua, has given us an
excellent little treaiife. * T he vipers affeCt that fituation,
and multiply more there, than in any other place hear it. The
Fraxini alfo hereabouts givesi plenty o f Manna, and o f excellent
quality ¿ but the Modacchi have motyet learned how to make the
Ample operation requiiite, in order to obtain it, by diftillation
from the branches.-
O f the River B^iBi'RS,Cni'zA,'andhf M o r p o l a z z a .
| . [ooioMfb larififeino eldT ' f'iK m 'y io ^
That I might be able to examine the, waters, which form the
lake under. Oftravizza, all along their courfe, I crofted the fields,
t ill i came to ¿he Iw^j! -p/^he,. Bribirfchiza, which
blues from the bottoip o f .a fteep.hjjj,.qn, which are ftill feen the
ruins o f Bribir, the ancient,jjefidenee g | j a powerful family o f
the Bans o f Dalmatia* who made a; great figure in the 14th century.
In examining the courfe.of Bribirfchiza, I fouiid many
adventitious fpecimens o f tjie large O f racitcs, though disfigured
by fluctuation; and near the ibupec,, J faw feveral fpecies o f Tur-
. . . . Unites,
* Fungi Cgrrarienjis Bi/itria, Pat. 1766, yto.
Unites, and foffil Bivalves femicalcined, well preferved, and ¡pellucid,
in a blueifh ftony clay ; but not one o f all the varipty that
I obferved, lives in our feas. T h e large broken maffes on the
banks o f the ftream, fome of which feem, to have turqblgdifrpro-
the top o fth e hill, are of fiabmarine formation, »¡:<i contain
imprifoned, amidft the gravel, a great variety o f calcined
teftaeeous bodies; which are ftill diftinguiihable, notwith-
ftanding their being alfo disfigured; and fome o f them appeared
to be natives of this country.
In my return to the (ea coaflr, I traverfed the large and beautiful
plain o f Morpolazza* flanked by hills, thinly inhabited,
and divided* by a channel intended to carry o ff the waters
o f the neighbouring ftreams, and pools.. The foil o f this
plain* which lies almoft all uncultivated, is a kind o f marie, to*
the formation whereof, the (hells o f fmall Turbines feem to have
contributed¿ for every year, immenfe quantities o f them are
left by the waters,, which falling- from the fuperior hills at Sopot,,
ufually overflow- it. The channel o f Morpolazza falls into the
lake o f Scardona* after á courfe o f thirty miles, under the name
©f Goducchia.. It is probable, that formerly there was fome Roman
eftabliihment on* the bottom, near the place where the
Church o f St. Peter o f Morpolazza now ( la n d s f o r fome remains
o f hewn (tones, and fragments o f infcriptions, are ftill to
be feen. The Araufa o f the itinerary, o f Antonnius cannot be far
from this place; and certainly thofe who imagined that Araufa'
or Aurozona is Zuonigrad, muft be very. far. from the the truth,,
for Zuonigrad (lands at lead thirty miles farther within land, and
far from the road which that Emperor, took.
Them.