466 'DOMAIN v. CALCAREOUS. 



With veins of a lively red, mingled with yel- 

 low ones more or less deep, from Montreal, in 

 Sicily. 



With yellow and black veins, from Mount 

 Pellegrino, in the same country. 



Yellow, veined with white; and another, with 

 black, brown, and white mazes, from Malta. 



There is also a kind of alabastrite which the 

 Fiorito. Italians call fiorito, implying that it is marked 

 with irregular spots, faintly resembling flowers. 

 Two columns of this kind, very rich in colours, 

 which however he does not specify, are placed, 

 according to Brard, in the Napoleon Museum 

 at Paris. They were discovered, in 1780, in 

 the ruins of Gabium, four leagues from Rome. 

 It is probably with this kind of alabastrite that 

 Strabo compares the Synnadic marble, when he 

 says it is variegated like alabastrite ; but perhaps 

 he means its light aerial appearance, whence 

 fche poet of St. Sophia compares it to roses sprin- 

 kled on white air. 



For the common or modern alabaster, the 

 reader is referred to Mode X,, which follows 

 Gypsum. 



