EARTHS. CALCAREOUS. 17. Marmor. 93 



Carbonat of lime. T'homfon chem, 3. p. 607. 

 Msrblcs. SchmeiJJer tmneral. 1. /'•24^. 



I, Of one uniform colour. 

 Rufous. Numidian* 

 I^lefh-colour. 

 Red. 



Cinnamon. Marmo canelio^ 

 Ycilow. Pbengitesx 

 Pale yellow. Polamhino arnica. 

 Grey. Bardillio. Venetian. 

 Blue. Of Chics and Narion* 

 (jreen, Verdello. 

 Livid. Farduiiav, 



3, Variegated, Sonverhy Brit, mineral, i. tab,y()t 

 \Vith bands. 



flriae, 



lines. Mar mo fcritto . v 



veins. 



the colours gradually running into, each other. 



fpotted, Brocatello. 



oceilated. Occhio diparon^. 



dotted. 



powdered, h'^armo polverofp. 



White. African^ 



Black. Canary^ 



Yellow. Porta fanta. 



Purplifh. Lesbian^ 



Green. Lacedemonian* 

 Forms ftratarial mountains in alfnoil every part of the glob^, 

 exhibiting innumerable varieties of colour and depiclmenti 

 it is more or lefa loaded with petrifactions, particularly of thft 

 teilaceous kind ; burns into very gQod lime, and is chiefly: 

 ufed in fculpture and coilly buildings, 



vulgatum, Subopake, compa£l, of a fplintery fraclure, receiving an 

 indifferent if any polilh, and of a vijer cokmr. 



Calcareus. foiidue. Waier fyjl,min, l, ^. 119. «. i, 



Compa^limellone. Kiripan mineral. 1. p. 80. 82. 



CompaCl limeltone- Thomfon chem. 3. p. 608. 



Common limeilone. Schmeijjer mineral. \, p. 215. 



Found in vaft jnountainousmalTes, fometiines in rounded lomp% 

 as at Aberthafw in Glamorgan/Lire ^ fometinics on the beach in 

 the form of (hin^les : colour greyifh, blueifli, blackifh, 

 fometimes cream-colour, flefli-colour or yellowifli, often with 

 fcveral colours mixed: differs from the marbles only in co- 

 k)ur and Dolifh, and is the matcriAl every where ufed fox. 

 burning into lime. 



