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            ma tocca da Vapori, o da fiamme ſubito ſi ſpacca, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2366" xml:space="preserve">ſe ne uà in pezzi; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2367" xml:space="preserve">il che di-
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            cono che medeſimamente auiene a ogni pietra forte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2368" xml:space="preserve">maſsimo alle Selici
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            bianche, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2369" xml:space="preserve">alle nere: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2370" xml:space="preserve">che nõ poſſono ſopportare punto il fuoco. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2371" xml:space="preserve">In campagna
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            di Roma, è una Pietra ſimile alla cenere nericcia, nella quale pare che ſieno
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            meſcolati, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2372" xml:space="preserve">poſti carboni; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2373" xml:space="preserve">laquale è tãto leggieri, che tu non te lo pẽſereſti mai,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2374" xml:space="preserve">è facile a lauolarla cõ il ferro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2375" xml:space="preserve">ſalda al tutto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2376" xml:space="preserve">da durare, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2377" xml:space="preserve">contro a fuochi,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2378" xml:space="preserve">contro alle Tempeſte non debole; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2379" xml:space="preserve">ma è in modo arida, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2380" xml:space="preserve">ſitibonda, che ſubi-
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            to abbrucia, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2381" xml:space="preserve">inghiottiſce le humiditati delle calcine, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2382" xml:space="preserve">laſcia le calcine abbru
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            ciate, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2383" xml:space="preserve">uane, nõ altrimenti che polueri: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2384" xml:space="preserve">Laonde aperteſi le congiũture, l’opera
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            preſto pela, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2385" xml:space="preserve">inoltre rouina. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2386" xml:space="preserve">Male pietre tonde, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2387" xml:space="preserve">maſsimo quelle de’ fiumi
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            ſon di cõtraria natura a queſta, percioche ſon ſempre humidiccie, nè s’accoſtano
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            mai alle calcine, che coſa è quella ch’eglino han trouato, che i Marmi nelle caue
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            di marmo creſcono. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2388" xml:space="preserve">In queſti noſtri tẽpi ſi ſon trouati in Roma minutami di
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            pietre Treuertine ſpugnoſe, eſſere creſciuti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2389" xml:space="preserve">diuentati un pezzo ſolo, m dian
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            te il nutrimento (per dire coſi) datoli dal tẽpo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2390" xml:space="preserve">dal Terreno. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2391" xml:space="preserve">Tu uedrai al la-
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            go di piè di Luco da quel lato donde cade l’acqua dallo ſcoſceſo precipitio, nel
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            finme della Nera, che il labbro ſopra della ripa è creſciuto di giorno in giorno,
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            in modo che alcuni hanno ſtimato, che mediante queſto ingroſſare, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2392" xml:space="preserve">creſce-
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            re della pietra, quella ualle riſerrataſigli la bocca, ſia diuenuta lago. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2393" xml:space="preserve">Sotto la Ba
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            ſilicata non diſcoſto dal Fiume Silari, da quella parte, doue caſcono dalle alte ri-
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            pe le Acque inuerſo Oriente, ſi uede ogni giorno creſcere grandiſsimi pez-
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            zi di congelate, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2394" xml:space="preserve">pendenti pietre, in tanta grãdezza, che qual ſi è, l’una peſa pa-
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            recchi carratte. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2395" xml:space="preserve">Queſta pietra freſca & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2396" xml:space="preserve">molle del materno ſugo, è molto tene-
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            ra, ma quando ella ſi raſciuga, diuenta duriſsima, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2397" xml:space="preserve">accõmodatiſsima a tutti i bi-
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            ſogni. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2398" xml:space="preserve">Io ho ueduto accadere il ſimile di alcuni Aquidotti i fianchi delle for-
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            me, de quali, hauendo contratta una certa gomma, paiono incroſtati di pietra.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2399" xml:space="preserve">In Romagna ſi poſſono uedere in queſti tempi due coſe certamente molto de-
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            gne di memoria; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2400" xml:space="preserve">In quel d’Imola è una ripa d’un Torrẽte molto alta, nella qua-
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            le ogni giorno hor quà, hor là in ſpeſsi lnoghi eſcono fuori, molti & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2401" xml:space="preserve">grandi ſaſsi
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            tondi, generatiſi nelle intime uiſcere della Terra: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2402" xml:space="preserve">Ne Campi di Faenza in ſu la ri
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            pa della corrente Lamona, ui ſono molte lunghe pietre, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2403" xml:space="preserve">grandi ꝑ lor natura,
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            che ogni giorno gettano fuora, non poca quantità di Sale; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2404" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2405" xml:space="preserve">ſi penſa che cõ ſpa-
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            tio di tẽpo diuenti pietra. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2406" xml:space="preserve">In quel di Firenze in Toſcana appreſſo al fiume del
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            le Chiane è una Poſſeſsione nella quale i duri ſaſsi, che in quantità ui ſieno ſopra
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            ſparſi, ogni ſette anni ſi riſoluono in zolle. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2407" xml:space="preserve">Plinio raccõta che appreſſo a Spiga,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2408" xml:space="preserve">intorno a Caſſandrea le zolle di terra, ſi conuertono in ſaſsi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2409" xml:space="preserve">In quel di Poz
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            zuolo ſi genera una poluere, che meſcolata cõ l’acqua del Mare, induriſce, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2410" xml:space="preserve">di-
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            uenta pietra. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2411" xml:space="preserve">In tutto il lito da Oropo inſino in Aulide ciò che è bagnata dal
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            Mare induriſce, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2412" xml:space="preserve">diuenta Pietra. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2413" xml:space="preserve">Et Diodoro ſcriue che in Arabia le zolle
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            (cauata la terra) hanno odori ſuaui, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2414" xml:space="preserve">che colate con il fuoco come i Metalli,
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            ſi conuertono in pietre. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2415" xml:space="preserve">Et aggiugne dipoi che queſte medeſime pietre, ſon
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            tali, che quando ſopra di loro cade acqua piouana, ſe gli illiquidiſcono le con-
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            giunture, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2416" xml:space="preserve">tutto il muro diuenta di un pezzo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2417" xml:space="preserve">Cauaſi in Aſſo di Troade il
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            Sarcophago, che ſi congiugne per le ſue uene atte al fenderſi, ſe in queſta pie-</s>
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