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ON inquiring in Rome for the Stato Maggiore map of the Lipari Islands, I was told that it was out of print, and when afterwards I succeeded in getting one in Florence, I found that owing to the large scale, the islands from Vulcano to Stromboli, in a north-easterly direction, and from Vulcano to Alicudi, to the north-west, were given on three separate sheets, too unwieldy to use for practical purposes, except in their disconnected form. Our own Admiralty chart (scale1/100000) constructed from the maps of a French hydrographer, M. Darondeau, gives all the islands, save Ustica, at one view, accompanied by soundings, and a general diagrammatic view of the principal group. The Comitato Geologico of Rome has not yet published a geological map of the islands, and the only complete one that exists, as far as I know, is that to be found in the antiquated “Vulkanen-Atlas” of N. C. von Leonhard, which is taken from the survey of Fr. Hoffmann. In this map. Alicudi, Felicudi, Salina, and the major part of Lipari are represented as composed of tuff with porphyritic lava. Panaria, with the surrounding islets Dattolo, Lisia Bianca, &c., is stated to consist entirely of trachyte. The greater part of Vulcano, and about half Stromboli are given as old felspathic lava, while the craters of Vulcano, Vulcaneilo, and Stromboli are described as nochforldauernde vulk. Bildungen. Pumice and obsidian are shown in various parts of Lipari.
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RODWELL, G. The Lipari Islands . Nature 21, 400–402 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021400a0
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