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TOLFA

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1052 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TOLFA  , a

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town of the province of Rome, Italy, to m . E.N.E. of Civitavecchia by road, 1558 ft. above sea-level . Pop . (19o1), 3956 . It is the chief place in the Tolf a Mountains, an
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extinct volcanic
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group between Civitavecchia and the Lake of
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Bracciano . Vapours are emitted which deposit
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sulphur and
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alum, and some
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mining is carried on . The output of alum averages 4000 to 5000 tons a
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year, and is mostly exported from Civitavecchia .

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