MODE V. OLLITE. 329 



Ollite, of a yellowish green. 



Of an olive green, with larger and smaller 

 veins of a greyish black, spots of a liver brown, 

 and small specks of an Isabella yellow. 



Of an olive green, with grass-green spots. 



Semi-transparent, of an emerald green, with 

 irregular oblong spots of an ochre yellow. This 

 would rather seem to be a hard steatite. 



Of a greenish grey, with a cast of blue. 



Of a yellowish grey, verging on Isabella co- 

 lour. 



Of a foliated structure, resembling, as he adds, 

 the laminar steatite of Karsten. 



Two other relics are of a brownish black, and 

 a greenish black ; in a third, mingled with a few 

 grass-green spots. 



The learned author has added the following 

 observations : 



" To this class, which affords so many Egyp- Thebaic 



J &%/ r stone. 



tian remains in the Borgian museum, belongs 

 the Thebaic stone of the ancients, which con- 

 stituted large portions of mountains, the quar- 

 ries being mentioned by Theophrastus. Pliny 

 has observed that it was black, or of a dark co- 

 lour, and marked with golden spots *. He 

 also observes that it yielded a juice, whence 



* xxxvi. 8, 22. 



