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fpar grains, fome quartz flakes, rolled and blunted 

 fragments of lava, glued by lime; found near 

 Fiefole, ferves to polilh marble. Ciottoli. Sec 

 Gbtarta. 



10. Eumeces, or Eumecide, is employed in dif- 

 ferent fenfes : Firft, fignifying globular coarfe 

 chalcedony-like half indurated clay, which may, 

 perhaps, be a mixture of foap-ilone, found in 

 the GWdy?r<?-hills, related to Igiada : Secondly, a 

 coarfe pebble-breccia, or loofe pudding-ftone : 

 Thirdly, an indurated terraceous fubflance, (Iri- 

 ated and fimilar to what they call erzmutter, or 

 ore matrix, in Hungary. I had no opportunity 

 to examine whether it be a calcareous or a feleni- 

 tical fubftance. 



n. Filcne; fynonymous to rikgatura and vena 

 metaltica, commonly a bed, ftratum, or flat- work; 

 but now and then indiftinclly a metallic vein. 



12. Gabbro ; ferpentine-ftone, found in Italy, 

 in Tufcany, and the diftridb of Genoa, in large 

 beds and hills, which commonly on one fide bor- 

 der on calcareous, and on the other fide on (late- 

 hills. See Polzevera. 



13. Galaftites ; white bacon-ftone, or fmeclites 

 the green is called Pietra nefritica. 



14. Galeftri\ (mall calcareous beds, found be- 

 tween the ftrata of compaft limeftone, mouldering 

 fry the lead touch to pieces. Synonymous to lar- 



dellcni. 



