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nishes a deep red marble, with grey spots, of 

 zoophytic remains. The marble of St. Anne, in 

 the neighbourhood of Namur, on a deep grey 

 base, presents white zoophytic spots : that of Thi- 

 laire is similar ; and that of Leff is pale red, with 

 white fragments of madrepores. 



The starry marble of Italy is light grey or white, 

 and seems to be entirely composed of zoophytic 

 fragments. 



Swiss. At Roche, a league beyond Aigle, is a quarry 



of a handsome marble, veined with red, white, 

 grey, and black. It is polished on the spot, and 

 is much used at Geneva, and the Pays de Vaud ; 

 nor is it unknown even at Lyons. Polished tables 

 of this marble present beautiful madrepores, and 

 some shells, chiefly pectenites; but they have 

 assumed the nature and grain of the marble, and 

 the shell seldom or never appears in its original 

 form *. 



* Sauss. 1092. 



