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RESEARCHES
in
ASIA MI NO R,
CHAPTER I.
Journey through France and Italy—Trieste— Adelsberg—Grottoes of Adelsberg
and La Maddalena—Lake of Zirknitz—Idria and its quicksilver mines—
Wippach—return to Trieste.
We left England on the 4th of July, 1835, and proceeded
through France for the purpose of visiting some of the vol-
canic districts of that country, in order to have a type with
which to compare that part of Asia Minor called the Cata-
cecaumene. The accounts contained in the writings of
Strabo, and the notices of modern travellers respecting this
region, where volcanic phenomena were supposed to be ex-
hibited in the same manner as in Auvergne, Mont Dor,
and the Vivarais, had long excited the attention of English
geologists. The latter have been so well described by
former writers,* that it would be superfluous to allude to
them any further; but I may be permitted to observe that
those districts are well deserving the attention of the ad-
mirer of picturesque scenery, no less than of the geologist,
and are equally interesting on account of the primitive
manners of the inhabitants, and for the many historical
events with which they are associated.
I pass rapidly over our journey through France and
* Scrape's Central France. Lyell's Principles of Geology, vol. iv., p. 130.
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in
ASIA MI NO R,
CHAPTER I.
Journey through France and Italy—Trieste— Adelsberg—Grottoes of Adelsberg
and La Maddalena—Lake of Zirknitz—Idria and its quicksilver mines—
Wippach—return to Trieste.
We left England on the 4th of July, 1835, and proceeded
through France for the purpose of visiting some of the vol-
canic districts of that country, in order to have a type with
which to compare that part of Asia Minor called the Cata-
cecaumene. The accounts contained in the writings of
Strabo, and the notices of modern travellers respecting this
region, where volcanic phenomena were supposed to be ex-
hibited in the same manner as in Auvergne, Mont Dor,
and the Vivarais, had long excited the attention of English
geologists. The latter have been so well described by
former writers,* that it would be superfluous to allude to
them any further; but I may be permitted to observe that
those districts are well deserving the attention of the ad-
mirer of picturesque scenery, no less than of the geologist,
and are equally interesting on account of the primitive
manners of the inhabitants, and for the many historical
events with which they are associated.
I pass rapidly over our journey through France and
* Scrape's Central France. Lyell's Principles of Geology, vol. iv., p. 130.
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