Excerpt from A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, Vol. 5: Many of Which Are Now First Translated Into English; Digested on a New Plan The zeal with which I have always been animated to contribute, as much as might be in my power, to the improvement of the Public Imperial Mufeum of Natural Hif tory in the Univerfity of Pavia, by enriching it with the new and important produc tions I procured in the various journeys and voyages I undertook both in Italy and Other countries, incited me to travel, during the fummer and autumn vacations, into the Two Sicilies. Though this Mufeum abounded in other kinds of natural produc tions, it was extremely deficient in volcanic matters, which merely confilled of a few trivial fcoriae of Vefuvius, and fome extremely common lavas of the fame mountain that, having been cut into tablets and polifhed, had loft their diftinguilhing character: ifllcs, and confequently could little contribute to the inllru 'tion of youth and the ad vancement of knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.