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To these may be added the following, indicated 

 by Brard. Spotted with red, white, grey, and 

 yellow, from the vicinity of Mont Dauphin, in the 

 Upper Alps. White, rose, and green, mingled 

 with garnets, needles of lepidote, and shining 

 spangles of iron ; this beautiful marble, of a saline 

 grain, is found at St. Maurice, in the Val God- 

 mar, but it belongs to the Composite Rocks. St. 

 Maurice likewise furnishes cipoline. Deep violet, 

 spotted with yellow, from Narbonne. Bariol6 9 or 

 streaked with various colours, white, red, and yel- 

 low, from the mouths of the Rhone, much esteem- 

 ed, being called marble of St. Bawne, and reputed 

 equal to Spanish brocatdlo. White, veined with 

 grey, from the department of Mont Blanc, vory 

 hard, being combined with silex. Grey and white, 

 spotted with red, from Liege. Of a light coffee 

 colour, with white, grey, and red veins, from Bou- 

 logne. Of Antin, white, with veins of a fiery red. 

 Lilac, from the Pyrenees. Black of Dinan, bitu- 

 minous : it is sometimes powdered with white 

 spots. Black, or rather grey, of Namur, much 

 used in Holland*. Isabella colour, with trans- 

 parent spots of deep brown, from Mont Rouge, 



* Where it is called llaeuwc stein, or blue stone. Hill, perhaps, 

 thought Namur a town in Africa; for he gravely affirms this to be 

 the Numidian mafble of the ancients, -which is literally toto ccelo 

 frrart. 



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