NOME III. CORSILITE. 83 



The account of this interesting rock shall be 

 closed by an extract from Patrin. 



" The beautiful rock which the Italians call Patnn's 



. . . account. 



Verde di Corsica, is a mixture of the two pre- 

 ceding substances, the smaragdite and the le- 

 manitejad; in which the white and the satiny 

 appearance of the green, have the most beauti- 

 ful effect. This rock is found in the primitive 

 teatitic mountains of Corsica. Some magnifi- 

 ent tables of it are seen in the chapel of Medi- 

 is ; and lately the Museum of Arts, at Paris, 

 as several: which are of the greater beauty, as 

 iiey serve for a base to some mosaic pictures 

 rom Florence, which are master-pieces of an art 

 nknown in France. With the natural colours 

 f jasper and agate, the art of the lapidary has 

 een able to represent objects of nature with a 

 orrectness which seems to vie with painting 

 tself. 



Three of these pictures (as they may justly 

 e styled) are on a base of one single slab of 

 r erde di Corsica, which displays a considerable 

 order all round the mosaic ; the latter represent- 

 tig tables, or trays, loaded with different vases. 

 " Two of the pictures seem to be at least 3 

 ;et long, and 18 or 20 inches high. The Verde 

 i Corsica, which constitutes their base, has not 

 le least defect ; the j ad predominates, its colour 



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