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The President, Dr. J. S. NEwBERRY, exhibited a series of 
specimens of White Statuary Marble from Vermont, as well 
as true Carrara Marble, and made some remarks upon the 
Marble Beds of Vermont. The particular specimens shown, 
were from a quarry which has been lately opened, and is now 
being successfully worked, for the most part, by Boston 
Capital, at Middlebury, in Vermont. The marble extracted 
is shown to be of a very superior quality, both as regards 
texture and color; whilst the strength is also very great. 
At Rutland, marble has been worked, and one layer of five 
feet in thickness, out of the whole series, which extends over 
sixty feet, yielded good statuary marble, but for the most 
part, the stone quarried there was not of a pure color. At 
Sutherland’s Falls, marble of excellent quality, somewhat 
mottled, was found. At Brandon, marble is worked, but the 
surface rock is found to be very much shattered. 'The color 
and grain of the stone are excellent, but sound marble, such 
as can be worked in large blocks, has not yet been found 
there. 
South of these localities, and in other states, the continua- 
tion of these beds of marble, wherever they crop out, have 
been found to become more and more granular and coarse as 
we proceed southward. The well-known Sing Sing Dolomite 
of New York State, which is being extensively employed in 
this city, more particularly by Mr. A. IT’. Stewart, in building 
his magnificent residence on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 
Thirty-fourth Street, and in the construction of the Catholic 
Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, is made up of large crystals, thus 
being coarse in texture, and not adapted to fine work. 
Besides, it often contains Pyrites and other minerals, which 
very materially deteriorate its quality. The Potomac marble, 
again, is of a coarse texture and inferior quality. So that it 
would seem, that we would naturally expect to find an im- 
provement in quality in this stone, as we travel to the North- 
ward. And this is the case, as the Vermont excavations 
show. The ancients used for the construction of their 
statuary, more particularly two kinds of marble. The Parian 
which was fine grained and waxy in appearance, and of a 
