DOMAIN I. S1DEROUS. 



queen sitting, in one piece about nine inches in 

 height, the back and sides being covered with 

 hieroglyphics. He also saw in the same collection 

 small fragments of green basaltin, from Egypt. 



Patrin gives the following list of ancient ba- 

 salts*. 



oriental. " Oriental basalt of a blackish grey, of a fine 

 grain, mixed with white scales of felspar, and little 

 veins of quartz. This is the kind most commonly 

 observed in ancient monuments. 



" Oriental black basalt. It is mixed with grains 

 of quartz, with small crystals of felspar, and with 

 spangles of mica ; these ingredients are not com- 

 bined as in granite, but interspersed in the black 

 base of trap. The Isis, which is in the court of 

 the Capitol, is of this stone. 



" Oriental black basalt, radiated with veins of 

 red granite, in small grains. The two sphinxes, 

 which are at the foot of the great stair-case of the 

 Capitol, are of this basalt. 



" Oriental black basalt, with green spots of si- 

 derite. It is called at Rome Egyptian stone, or 

 nephritic stone. 



" Oriental green basalt. It is of the same base 

 as green porphyry : the only difference is, that the 



* i. 127. The French authors rarely quote their authorities; but 

 Patrin has borrowed his examples from Ferber's Travels in Italy. 



