66 September 1743. 



good for working, though it is not one of the 

 fineft kind of marbles. They make many tomb- 

 {tones and tables, enchafe chimneys and doors, 

 floors of marble flags in the rooms, and the like, 

 of this kind of marble. A quantity of this com- 

 modity is {hipped to different parts of America. 



MUSCOVY glafs,* is found in many places here- 

 abouts, and fome pieces of it are pretty large, 

 and as fine as thofe which are brought from Rujfia. 

 I have feen fome of them, which were a foot and 

 more in length. And I have feveral in my col- 

 ledtion that are nearly nine inches fquare. The 

 Swedes on their firft arrival here made their win- 

 dows of this native glafs. 



A PALE grey fine limeftone, -J- of a compact 

 texture, lies in many places hereabouts, and af- 

 fords a fine lime. Some pieces of it are fo full of 

 fine tranfparent cryftals, that almoft half of the 

 {tone confifts of nothing elfe. But befides this 

 limeftone, they make lime near the fea-fhore 

 from oyfter (hells, and bring it to town in 

 winter, which is faid to be worfe for nvafonry, 

 but better for white-wafliing, than that which is 

 got from the limeftone. 



COALS have not yet been found in Penfyha- 

 Tila ; but people pretend to have feen them higher 

 up in the country among the natives. Many peo- 



* Mica ?nt rt:lrar t ac */r, Linn. Syft. nat. 3. p. 58' 



Mica memlrana<.ca pellncidijjimafiexilii alba. Wallerius*s Miri. 

 p. i 20. 



/^v/.V^gkfs, Mufcovy glafs, Ifinglafs, V it rum mtkenicum t Vitnan 

 %'ari'f* 7'6/yAr's Introd. to Mineralogy, p. 18. 



f l\l',rn:cr rude, Linn, Syft. nat. 3. p. 4!. 



Caicai-ius particiilis feint Ulan tibns, f$ r a/L M in. p . 3 p . 



Catwcus faniilLins, glittering limeilone. Forfttr't Introd. to 

 lVl!',v:raK p. 9. 



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