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a violet fpecies on the ifland of Elba. Pocofke 

 gives fome account of the Granite-quarries in 

 Egypt. Europe produces Granite in almoft every 

 country, in the iflands Corfica, Sardinia, Elba, in 

 Tofcana, in the Sanefe, in Switzerland, and the 

 higheft Alps, in the higheft mountains of the 

 Hartz, in Bohemia, in Saxony, in the Carpathian 

 hills, in Sweden, Normandy, and Lapland. Thefe 

 European Granites are in no refpeft differing from 

 the pretended oriental ones -, there are red and 

 grey forts, and they would furnim as large maffes as 

 the Egyptian obelifks, if we did not grudge 

 time and money. 



2. Granito Grigio or Bigio, grey, confifts in 

 white tranfparent or milky tranfparent quartz, 

 white feld-fpath and black mica. If all thefe mix- 

 tured Hones be fmall, it is called Granitello. The 

 quartz being commonly the greater part, and now 

 and then, butfcarcely, mixed with feld-fpath ; which 

 commonly appears in cubic lumps, this fort of 

 {tone wants an exact examination. If the feld 

 (path be entirely wanting, the mixture of quartz 

 and glimmer is properly called Hornlerg^ Homfels, 

 or Geftell-Stein ; and it is ilaty or fhivery if the 

 mica exceed the quantity of quartz. But the 

 ftone-cutters are not ib nice in the denominations, 

 ranking even the Geft ell-Stem among the grey Gra- 

 nites. There is a fpecies of the grey large fpotted 

 0^2 Granite, 



