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thors; and my eye lighted with no small pleasure on Humboldt's Cosmos; on the walls were copperplate views of Florence, and an admirable copy of a Perugino; all this told not only of the seclusion of a scholar, but of that of a highly cultivated Florentine. There are perhaps few greater contrasts than that between Florence and Corsica, and my own feelings were at first certainly peculiar, when, after six weeks' stay in Florence, I suddenly exchanged the Madonnas of Raphael for the Corsican banditti; but it is always to be remembered that Corsica

exile, attest the manly vigour of his character. Francesco Marmocchi is one of the most esteemed and talented Italian geographers. Besides his great work, a Universal Geography in six quarto volumes, a new edition of which is at present publishing, he has written a special Geography of Italy in two volumes; a Historical Geography of the Ancient Worl

landscape, if the reader will suppose himself in our company, we shall take the geographer himself for guide

occupy the entire south-western side. This earliest upheaval took place in a direction from north-west to south-east; its marks are the two great ribs of mountain which run parallel, from north-east to south-west, down towards the sea, and form the most important promontories of the west coast. The axis of Corsica at that time must t

nce to the north-east, we find the granite gradually giving way to the ophiolitic (ophiolitisch) earth system. The second upheaval is, however, ha

ot come in contact with the masses of previous upheavals, their direction remains regular, as is shown by the mountain-chain of Cape Corso. But it had to burst its way through the towering masses of the southern ridge with a fearful shock; it broke them up, altering its direction, an

mitive ophiolitic and primitive calcareous, co

proof that it was elevated at a period antecedent to that during which the covering masses were forming in the bosom of the ocean, to be deposited in horizontal strata on the crystalline granite masses. Strata of porphyry and eurit

the island. They consist of bluish gray limestone, huge masses of talc

, Aleria, and Bonifazio. They exhibit numerous fossils of marine animals of subordina

osits of the period when the floods destroyed vast numbers of animal species. Among the diluvial fossils in the neighbou

tinct volcanoes may be seen near Porto Vecchio,

in metals as it really is. Numerous indications of metallic veins are, it is true, to be found everywhere, now of iron or copper, now of lead, antimony, mang

of Olmeta and Farinole in Cape Corso, an iron mine near Venzolasca, the copper mine of L

f the rarest and most valuable stones, an elysium of the

e a detail of these beautiful stones,

e at Olmiccia; rose-red granite at Cargese; red granite, tending to purple, at Aitone; rosy granite of Carbucci

spots at Porto Vecchio; pale yellow porphyry, with rosy felspar at P

erpentines; also transparent serpe

sist of felspar and amphiboles in concentric layers) in isolated blocks at Sollucaro, on the Taravo, in the valley of Campolaggio and elsewhere; amphibolite, with crystals of bla

es) in Niolo, and the valley of Stagno; agates (also i

gnano, and elsewhere; bluish gray marble at Corte; yellow alabaster in the valley of S. Lucia, near Bastia;