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ancient quarries, in which lie large blocks hewn and ready
to be removed. The stone is the same as that on which
the town is built, but whether a different bed, or the same
thrown up by a fault, I could not ascertain. Neither
could I find the line of junction between the limestone and
the trachyte, so as to form any conjecture of their relative
ages.