390 Miscellanies. 
Appreciating fully the discovery of Godfrey, and anxious to prevent a 
further desecration of the grave, the annalist of Philadelphia, John F. 
Watson, Esq., who resides in Germantown, has had the remains of God- 
frey, of it father and mother, and of a small child, all disinterred with 
suitable care, and we are happy to add, that the managers of the Laurel 
Hill cemetery have erected a suitable tomb over the remains, The friends 
of science, when viewing this already celebrated spot, will not forget to” 
visit the tombs of Godfrey, the inventor of the Quadrant, and of Charles 
Thonison, the first, and long the confidential Secretary of the Continen- 
tal Congress, also to be found appropriately ornamented in the same cem- 
etery. It is high time other attempts were made to perpetuate the mem- 
ory of the great and good men of the Revolution. —Cam. by Mr. Smith 
of - Phila. Library. — - 
21, Marble and Serpentine in Vermont. —We have | some beau- 
tifal marble tablets from Vermont through Mr. Tlock. Hills, agent of the 
Black River Marble and Manufacturing Company. 
The quantity is stated to be inexhaustible. 
The marble proper, is in the town of Plymouth, county of Windsor, 
twenty five miles west of Connecticut river. 
Some of the pieces sent to us have a white basis, with a faint blush of 
red, and varied by clouds - a light chocolate color ; the structure is sub- 
exvitaiiine, almost compact, and the same is true of other pieces whose 
basis is black, but beautifll pictured by white spots, tinted in some parts 
with gray. The white is often elongated into figures, having consider- 
able regularity; sometimes. almost cylindrical, and suggesting, at a tran- 
sient glance, the idea of imbedded encrinites, or other organic remains. 
It is scarcely necessary to remark, that this is not the fact; and, indeed, 
the geological character of the country 1 from which the marble comes, 1s 
primary, and destitute of organic bodies 
The serpentines and serpentine aac from the eee town 
of Cavendish. 
The color presents every shade of green, and becomes, by easy transi- 
tions, deep leek-green and almost black. A piece of the latter color, 12 
inches by 10, now lies before us, and is so highly polished as to bea good 
mirror; it is, indeed, very beautiful. The lighter colored pieces have 
considerable resemblance to the Verd Antique of Milford, Connecticut. 
We cannot doubt that these materials will prove important both to use- 
ful and ornamental architecture. ‘The pieces before us are all very ae 
and would indicate good quarries. 
The serpentine graduates, we are informed, into soapstone of an ex- 
cellent quality, and the distance of the quarries of serpentine and soap- 
stone from the river is less than that of the marble. We observe in these 
ns SR magnetic oxide of iron and chromate of iron, both so charac- 
teristic of serpentine formations. 
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