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don, and which contains white sparry casts of 

 shells, both turbinated and bivalve*. 



The Derbyshire marble, of a pale ash colour, 

 full of entrochi, was much used in London for 

 tables and chimney-pieces f. 



Good marble is found in the side of Bowfell, in 

 the West Hiding of Yorkshire, being grey, with 

 entrochites : it is manufactured at Kendal, and is 

 in great demand at Manchester and Liverpool. 

 Bowfell is one of the highest mountains in En- 

 gland, and sends waters into both seas. It is 

 about thirty miles in circuit^. 



French. France abounds in conchitic marbles. The 

 red of Givet, containing entrochi, rather belongs 

 to the Zoophytic structure. The department of 

 Aube shows a grey marble, almost formed of little 

 shells, and some large ammonites. Red, with 

 white circles, being transverse sections of shells, 

 from the neighbourhood of Brest. The white spots 

 in the beautiful red griottc sometimes wear a shelly 

 aspect . The greyish brown of Langres. Deep 



* That supposed from Wales is in fact the same with that of 

 Durham, as appears from Gresham's tomb. 



f Da Costa, p. 232, &c. 



J Parkinson, Organic Remains, vol. ii. 



Brard says that the red spots on the griotte are shells, of which 

 the outline is marked in black, p. 369 : this is from the department 

 of Herault. 



