396 DOMAIN V. CALCAREOUS. 



SCOTLAND. White statuary marble of As- 

 synt. White marble, with long veins of a differ- 

 ent tint, from Durness. Red and white marble 

 of Boyne. The beautiful rose-coloured marble of 

 Tirey, mingled with siderite, c. is reserved for 

 the Composite Rocks. The same isle presents a 

 beatftiful white marble, with veins of nephrite. 

 Numerous other marbles might be explored in the 

 Highlands of Scotland ; and a French author is 

 singularly unjust when he says that the British 



with white, mentions the Egyptian, which he rather supposes to 

 be the Tiberian and Augustean (though no green marble be found 

 in Egypt) j then a second, which is the polzavera ; and a third the 

 green of Susa ; and a fourth from Sweden. He then adds, " These 

 are the chief varieties of this marble, which, besides the places 

 already mentioned, is found in several parts of Europe; in the 

 northern part of the island of Anglesea, in Wales, in the parish of 

 Llan Fairyng Hornuy; and in Inis Molroniad, or the Island of 

 Sea Calves, there are rocks of this kind of marble with veins of fine 

 asbestos ; and a quarry of the same marble is dug near Kemlyn, and 

 another at Monachty, in the same island. 



" Woodw. Cat. A. X. b. 3, exhibits a dusky green marble, 

 veined with white, which he found in the way between Ambleside 

 and Penrith, in Cumberland, where it is in considerable quantity : 

 it probably is of the same species." 



So ancient is the knowledge of the beautiful Anglesea marble, 

 which has been regarded as a recent discovery. In the Journal des 

 Mines* is an extract from Pennant's Tour in Wales concerning 

 this marble ; which is also said to be found in the Skerries, a little 

 isle near Anglesea. 



* No. 16, p. 75. 



