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grey, spotted with several colours, and one com- 

 posed of spots red and yellow. Castro Nuovo, 

 yellow, spotted with red. Taormina, red, spotted 

 with black, or a deeper red ; yellow, spotted with 

 white and black ; and a yet more singular, green- 

 ish, with bright brown spots; and a lilac, with 

 w r avy reflections. Termini, greenish, veined with 

 white, and dotted with red. Near Sciacca ap- 

 pears a bright green, waved with deeper green 

 and yellow. In the river Niso are found frag- 

 ments of red, spotted with a white semi-trans- 

 parent substance, like chalcedony. 



As marble so much abounds in Europe, there 

 was no occasion to import it from the other con- 

 tinents, and their products of this kind remain of 

 course little known. In ASIA Dr. Shaw men- 

 tions a dendritic marble of Mount Sinai, which 

 has been confounded with the pictorial marble of 

 Florence, as appears from Wallerius. Persia con- 

 tains many marbles, mentioned by Chardin, parti- 

 cularly the translucent white. The kingdom of 

 Siam, and China, also present edifices of beautiful 

 white marble. Hindostan does not appear rich 

 in this production. Some of the statues and mo- 

 numents are rather of a coarse limestone than a 

 marble. 



The AFRICAN marbles were among the most 

 celebrated of antiquity, when the northern part of 



Asiatic. 



African. 



