NOME XXVI. LIME-STONE, WITH ACTINOTE. 



a substance resembling red garnets; or perhaps 

 they are only altered by the gangart, and might 

 be found upon analysis to correspond with those 

 found in the lime-stone of the Pyrenees. Thus 

 the singular appearance of the flint discovered 

 at Menil Montant, near Paris, and which re- 

 sembles pitch-stone, probably only arises from 

 the soft and unctuous marl in which it is al- 

 ways found. This important observation may 

 be said to have escaped all writers on mine- 

 ralogy. 



It is remarkable that marbles similar to that 

 of Tirey occur in Scandinavia. A northern mi- 

 neralogist, Mr.' Neergard, observes that there 

 are, in all Sweden and Norway, only two quar- 

 ries of marble which are wrought*. 



" That of Fagernich, in Sweden, is situate 

 between the two little towns of Norkioping and 

 Nykioping, and about thirty leagues from Stock- 

 holm. It belongs at present to Mr. Eberstein 

 of Norkioping, and to Baron Unger, who par- 

 chased it from Count Gyllenberg for only 

 200,000 francs, on account of its bad condition. 

 This marble, which is white, with veins of green 

 talc, the fracture brilliant, began to be wrought 

 about a hundred and fifty years ago, in the reign 



* Brard, Traite des pierres, Paris 1808, 8vo. ii. 444. 

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