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ragon, of a reddish yellow with fragments of 

 black ; and those of Valencia, of a pale yellow. 

 That of Old Castile is much employed at Paris, 

 being of a bright red, dotted with yellow and 

 black, and enclosing fragments of a pale yellow, 

 brick red, deep brown, and blackish grey*. They 

 are rather round, so that it might be called a 

 pudding-stone, if this division were natural; for 

 in the original and beautiful pudding-stone of 

 England, whose name has passed into all lan- 

 guages, the small pebbles are often angular, 

 which, with many other instances, shows the divi- 

 sion is unnecessary. 



No bricia worth mention, seems hitherto to 

 have been discovered in the British dominions. 

 France. France presents a beautiful marble of this de- 

 scription, very common at Paris. The ground is, 

 in some pieces, of a pale brownish red, in others 

 of a straw colour ; and is itself chiefly composed 

 of very small fragments of the same colours with 

 the larger, which are of all shapes, and from half 

 an inch to two or three inches in size. These 

 spots are generally of a light brown, or straw 

 colour, and are interspersed with other fragments 

 of a slate blue and pale red, with others of a light 



* The celebrated Irocatello, or cloth of gold of Catalonia, is by 

 some regarded as a bricia. 



