222 TRAVELS THROUGH 



aisflib m 

 V. Breccia filicea. 



-rift, if fpeak here only of the flint, or horn-flone 

 Breccia, which is a true pudding-ftone. The cal- 

 careous ones belong to the marbles. 



lid-^Pietra fruticohfa, or frutiliofa, orient ale*, an 

 ancient pudding-ftone ; confiding of yellow and 

 red roundilh pebbles inclofed with black iron 

 dendrites. I faw only a fingle fpecimen of that 

 kind. 



2. Breccia verde d'Egitto, ferruminated from 

 darker and higher, round and undetermined green 

 fragments, which --Teemed to be terraceous, taking 

 ho remarkable polifh ; however, extremely hard, 

 and agreeable on account of the fine colours. 

 Large Granite pieces inciofed now and then into 

 its mixture. In the villa Albeni is kept a great 

 vafe, compofed of fragments of this Breccia, large 

 blocks not being to be had ; though the Ancients, 

 as appears by fragments and ruins, . had large 

 columns of this Breccia. 



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VI. Porphyry. 

 -rru*toi \h . 



Vis y&&)rfido roffb, dark-red, with white oblong 

 fpots j moft commonly employed in Italy. The 



ground- 



