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The annexed Drawing, No. 18, which exhibits tlie view of a chapcl, called by the
people of the country, in their patois or provincial dialeél, Templo de Jove, or Temple of
Jupiter, has been ib dreadfully mutilated by the barbarous nations who invaded this pro-.
A'ince, that I have fcarcely been able to difcover any, or at leail but few remnants of its
original arc h iteilure, yet fufficieiit to prove that it was originally a Roman monument;
beiides, ieveral medals have been found in the environs, bearing the heads of different
emperoi-s.
This veftige of antiquity ilands about half-way from St. Laurent to Grace; and the
village of Cannes, which is three miles from Antibes and ten from Nice, is moft deiirably
fituatcd at the extremity of a charming gulph, nearly furrounded by a thick foreft of
olives.
Here ends the topographical defcription of the county of Nice and Maritime Alps,
witli the philofophical obfervations on the natural hiflory of that country, as I had promifed
in the introduftion of a work of lefs fize, publi£hed at Geneva in 1787, entitled
" Voyage Hiftorique et Pittorefque du Comté de Nice."
There now only remains for me to add a general recapitulation and deduilion of tlie
principal fafls advanced in the prefent work.
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R E C A P I T U L A T I O N
D E D U C T I O N S AND OBSERVATIONS
T H E PRINCIPAL FACTS ST.\TED IN THE PRECEDING CHAPTENS.
THINKING that fome general dedii6Uons from the principal faifts, or phenomena, mentioned
in the courfe of this work may be expeiled of me, efpecially with refpedt to the
theory of the formation of the irregular furface of the earth, at leail of that wondeiiul
part of it which I have fo repeatedly explored, I have ventured to annex a few obfervations,
which appear to me to merit the particular attention of philofophei-s, as likewife the
confequences which I think might be drawn from them.
I do not, however, mean to fpeak of what relates to the firil and great revolution experienced
by our globe at the formation of its continents; that is, at the epocha when the
waters covered it above two thoufand four hundred and fii>y toifes, and which is nearly the
prefent elevation of fome of the granitic peaks of the Alps, as Mont Blanc, Mont Rofe, &c.
In ihort, of the time when they were totally fubmei^ed by that element, and formed themfelves
under that fluid, eitlier by effefl of cryiiallization or precipitation. I therefore only
intend to touch on the phsenomena which relate to the laft immeriion experienced by our
continent, and which appears to have been partial.
I. From the immenfe atterriiTements, or land-accumulations, already formed, and
which are continually increafmg at the mouth of the P6; from the extreme variation or
great variety exifting in the different ftrata of fand, pebbles, and vegetable earth, which
^ forms the banks of tliat wonderful river; from the number of beds of maritime and
flavlatiles, or river ihells, which lie in fome places diftindt or feparated, and in others eonfufcdly
mixed together, from Cremona to the fea: in fine, from the progrciBvc diminution
which the velocity of the waters of the P6 experience, in proportion as the lower valley of
Lombai-dy enlai^es and gets nearer the fea: I conclude or deduce the following confequences.
1. That that part of the valley, which lies eaftward of Cremona, cannot owe