MODE X. GREEN MARBLE, 



leek marble, being of a bright green, shaded 

 with a blackish green, so as to form long veins, 

 with a fracture in splinters like that of wood. 

 There is a table of it at the Hotel de la Mon- 

 noie, at Paris*. 



Of modern green marbles, the polzevera, al- Modem. 



Polzevera. 



ready mentioned, is so called from a mountain 

 on the north of Genoa. This marble often pre- 

 sents red calcareous parts f, like that of Angle- 

 sea; but in the latter the red, and even the 

 white, seem so intimately combined with mag- 

 nesian particles, that they do not effervesce with 

 the nitrous acid, while in the verde-antico the 

 effervescence of the white parts is very strong. 

 The polzevera is common in ancient chimney- 

 pieces, both in France and England, for exam- 

 ple, in the British Museum. There is also a 

 green and white marble, found at Suza, in Pied- 

 mont. 



The green marble of Campan, and other dis- ofCampan, 

 tricts of the Pyrenees, also consists of limestone 

 mixed with talc; but the structure is so singu- 

 lar, that it is classed among the Anomalous 

 Rocks. The Isle of Elba also presents a white 

 marble, veined with dark green; but the green 

 marbles of Florence seem strictly to belong to 



* Brard, 335. 



f* So our author, but the red seem serpentine. 



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