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of their city were built with this marble, the ques- 

 tion might perhaps still be settled by a learned 

 traveller. When they showed them in a boasting 

 manner to Cicero, his dry sarcasm, on their great 

 pride and small domain, was, " I should have ad- 

 mired them more, if they had been built of tra- 

 vertine." After all, this marble may perhaps be 

 Italian ; for Ferber informs us that the same kind 

 is still found at Seravezza, on the opposite side of 

 the mountain to Carrara, which is also called 

 Africano, and employed instead of the antique*. 

 The names, imposed by the ignorant and interest- 

 ed dealers and artists, deserve no credit ; and an 

 intelligent traveller must study the marbles in the 

 undoubted remains of antiquity, beginning with 

 those which continued in general estimation and 

 use for many centuries, as the Laconian, the 

 Phrygian, the Numidian, and the imperial or 

 Egyptian. 



No other bricia appears in Ferber's catalogue of 

 Antique, the ancient marbles of Rome ; but some others 

 are styled antique, probably only on account of 

 their beauty. Such are the rose bricia, which, on 

 a base of bright red, is enriched with little spots, 

 rose and black, with larger ones of a beautiful 



* Da Costa, p. 21 1, positively informs us that the black marble 

 vvith red and white spots, is Italian, though called African. 





