408 DOMAIN V. CALCAREOUS. 



pictures, properly belongs to the marlites. Orange, 

 or bright red inclining to yellow, like the gem 

 called jacint, from Verona; but as it sometimes 

 presents ammonites, it rather belongs to the Con- 

 chitic : the tomb of Petrarca, at Arquoi, recently 

 engraved by Faujas, is of this marble. A duller 

 red was used by the Romans in building the vast 

 amphitheatre of Verona. Six leagues from Ve- 

 rona Faujas observed a singular kind, which he 

 calls bone-marble, being of the same red paste, 

 with a greenish shade, and presenting large white 

 spots, which are petrified bones ; but he has not 

 explained to what animal they belong. Large 

 columns of this singular marble have been ex- 

 tracted *. 



Sicily. The chief marble of Sicily is red, with long 



stripes, like ribbons, white, rose-coloured, and 

 sometimes greenish, which at intervals revolve, 

 forming pretty acute angles. This singular mar- 

 ble is of the highest value f . Bisachino not only 

 presents a milk white, but an apple green, which 

 takes the finest polish, probably a serpentine. 

 Trapani possesses a red, with deeper spots ; and 

 another red, spotted with green ; not to mention 



* Brard, 418. 



f It is a heavy ferruginous kind, whence our ma.rble-cutters call 

 it Sicilian jasper. It is perhaps from Giuliano, in the south- west 

 of Sicily, a spot famous for products of this kind. 



