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APPENDIX TO PART I.
No. (I.)
Translation of the general account of the Geology of Southern Italy, forming Chapter I. Part I. of Profs. Palmieri and Scacchi's account of the Earthquake of 14th August 1851.
'Della Regioni Vulcanica del Monte Vulturi, e del Tremuoto ivi Avvenuto nel de 14 Agosto, 1851, relazione fatta per incarico della Reale Accademia delle Scienze, da Luigi Palmieri ed Archangelo Scacchi.' Napoli. Gaetano Nobili, 1852.
OF THE NEPTUNIAN ROCKS THROUGH WHICH THE VOLCANOES OF VULTURE FORCED THEIR WAY.
The ancient fires of the region of Vulture opened a road for themselves through the neptunian rocks, which are not materially different from those which surround the other volcanic districts of Campania. The examination which we have made of the neptunian rocks of our kingdom from Balzorano, in the southern limits of Abruzzi, to Tarentum in Puglia, and Pizzo in Calabria, has proved to us that the same rocks occur everywhere in the same order, and with nearly the same topographical conditions. Geologists who have visited these countries have met with no
