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of a common kind to a plumb-pudding, com- 

 posed of flour with raisins and corinths*, and 

 which being strictly descriptive, has passed into 

 all languages, is inclined to prefer the Latin 

 farcilite of similar import; but the Greek Kol- 

 lanite is preferable, the Latin having passed into 

 the dramatic farce, which ekes out the enter- 

 tainment like the old Roman farcimens, or pud- 

 dings. He quotes the miners' journal, published 

 in German, for a mountain of farcilite or pud- 

 ding-stone, in Siberia, near a rivulet called Tulat, 

 consisting of rounded fragments of jasper, chal- 

 cedony, carnelian, and beryl, in a quartzy ce- 

 mentf. This he considers as primitive; but 

 among the secondary rocks, quotes the same 

 passage, only omitting the beryl, which indeed 

 seems foreign to such a substance. Even this 

 can scarcely rival the English pudding-stone in 

 beauty and variety ; and, if it consists of round- 

 ed or rolled fragments, must be of quite a differ- 

 ent nature, as shall presently be explained. 



The errors of foreign writers, concerning this 

 singular and beautiful production of England, 



* A small grape originally from Corinth, but now chiefly im- 

 ported from Cephalonia and Zante, and which has been used for 

 centuries in the English kitchen. The French have no puddings, 

 the loudin being a hogs-pudding. 



f Geol. Ess. 212. 



