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fo common, that the chief colour or ground feem 

 black, it is called Granito ner 'e bianco a macchie 

 grandi\ and fuch is the column kept in S. Praf- 

 fede, on which Chrifl fuffered flagellation. 



4. Granito verde, green Granite, confifts of 

 white quartz, fcarce feld-fpath particles, and large 

 oblong fherl-fpots, as the former, n. 3. except 

 that the white ground appears light-green in the 

 furface ; which makes this variety of Granites 

 much like the above green porphyry (4. B. y.) 

 whofe green trap-ground is cryftallized like (her], 

 and whofe white fpots are large. The difference 

 is, that the green Granite appears in the white 

 quartz, and that in the porphyry it appears in the 

 fherl-cry utilizations. A column of green Gra- 

 nites is in the villa Pamphili at Rome. 



The ftone-cutters and dealers call the antique 

 Granite Oriental, or d'Egitto ; and the European 

 Occidental. On the fame footing, the antique or 

 Egyptian bafakes goes under the name of Orien- 

 tal. It is the fame with the alabafter; and the 

 precious flones are, according to their hardnefs 

 and country, every where divided into Oriental 

 and Occidental ones. 



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