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that occur in most of the larger Gothick buildings 

 of England, are artificial ; and will have it, that 

 they are a kind of fusil marble, cast in cylindrick 

 moulds. Any one, who shall confer the grain of 

 the marble of those pillars, the spar, and the 

 shells in it, with those of this marble got in Sus- 

 sex, will soon discern how little ground there is 

 for this opinion: and yet it has prevailed very 

 generally. I met with several instances of it as I 

 travelled through England ; and had frequent op- 

 portunities of showing those who asserted these 

 pillars to be factitious, stone of the very same sort 

 with that they were composed of, in the neighbour- 

 ing quarries. Camden* had entertained the same 

 notion of those vast stones of Stone-Henge ; but 

 is fully refuted by Inigo Jones^" J 



Da Costa mentions a black coralic marble, 

 from Wales, with madrepores an inch or two in 

 length, like half a crown when cut across. It is, 

 he says, very beautiful, and the tomb of Sir Tho- 

 mas Gresham, in the church of Great St. Helen's, 

 is formed of it. He confounds it with the Kil- 

 kenny marble, which he says is much used in Lon- 



" * In his Britannia, p. 95. 

 *' t Stone-Henge restored, p. 33." 



% Woodward's English Fossils, i. 20. The marble of Bethersden 

 in Kent was also noted. 



