600 APPENDIX. 



Rhodian with golden spots (serpentine with mica ? Occhio 

 di pavone '?) 



Corinthian, jftavus, yellow with spots. (Canello? Perhaps 

 Giallo e new.) 



Chian, black or dark with spots. (Pavonazzo ? Occhio di 

 pernice ?) 



Jud&an, flame colour (Dorata ?) 



Tauromenian, variegated. That of Taormina in Sicily (Red 

 spotted with black, or a deeper red ; or veined with white, 

 Brocatellone). Also, greenish with red spots. 



Gibbon, vii. 120, describes from Paul Silentiarius the fol- 

 lowing marbles of St. Sophia. 



Carystian, pale with iron veins. Phrygian. 



Carian from Jassus, veined white and red. 



Lydian, pale with a red flower (a fiorito.) African, of a 

 gold or saffron colour. Celtic, black with white veins. 

 (Nero e bianco*-) 



What marble appears in the ruins of Palmyra ? 



Some further illustrations may also be offered, concerning 

 the ancient petralogy of Egypt. 



Plato, in Timcso, describes an Egyptian stone as composed 

 of red, yellolfr, white, and black. It is the noted granite of 

 Egypt, says Garof. p. 42. Red felspar, yellow or white 

 quartz, black siderite. 



The psaronion, also from Syene, derived its name from the 

 white and ash coloured spots of starlings. Roziere gave me a 

 specimen, which he found at Syene, intersected with a vein 

 of red granite. Beyond Syene, Ethiopia was supposed to 

 commence. Pausan. Eliac. 518. 



Eusebius, lib. viii. p. 42O, mentions that Christians were 

 condemned to labour in the quarries of porphyry in the 



* The black and white Celtic may be granite. The lapis speculuris seems to 

 be talc. 



