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given to a fine-grained and hard kind, of a snowy 

 whiteness. It was from several islands in the 

 Archipelago, as Scio, Samos, &c. In the Parisian 

 Museum, which derives its name from the Em- 

 peror Napoleon, there are an Adonis, a Bacchus, 

 the philosopher Zeno. The Fawn is supposed by 

 Brard to be of the marble called Coralian by 

 Pliny, because found near the river Coralus, in 

 Asia Minor, and which, in whiteness and grain, 

 resembled ivory. Some assert that the finest sta- 

 tue in the world, the Apollo of Belvidere, is formed 

 of what is called the Greek marble; but most 

 mineralogists infer it to be marble of Luna. 

 Translucent. At Venice, and in different towns of Lombardy, 

 are columns and altars of a singular marble, so 

 translucent, that the light of "a candle is visible 

 through pretty thick masses. This is perhaps the 

 Cappadocian phengites. 



Elastic. Tables of ancient elastic marble occur in the 

 palace Borghese at Rome. It has been recently 

 asserted that this quality may be imparted by a 

 certain modification of heat, which loosens the 

 structure, so that the calcareous scales move in 

 certain directions. 



Irffta/"' White marble of Luni (the ancient Luna), or 

 Carrara, on the shores of Tuscany. Though 

 these two places be nearly adjacent, yet some 

 assert that the marble of Luni is finer than that of 



