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Tufcany;. which, deferving your notice, I fhall 

 defcribe to you. 



Marmo verde di- Firenze is a faint-coloured fea- 

 green marble, found in the Florentine. 



Marmo bianc* e mro di Porto Ferrajo is digging 

 hear this harbour, fcarce inferior in beauty to the 

 Bianc' e nero antico. Black white veined. In thfe 

 fea near Porto Ferrajo they fifh Pinnas marinas^ 

 whofe filk, called Pelo di Gnacckera, is worked into 

 gloves, ftockings, &c. 



Marmo potoerofo di Piftoja is black with white- 

 grey, and, as it were, pointed veins, refembling 

 black marble fpririkled with white duft. Fine 

 tables of this marble are to be feen in the 

 Lorenzo chapel. Generally the hills about Pif- 

 toja confift in macigno. Mr. Manetti gives fome 

 account of them in the tfiridario Florentine, 1751, 

 8vo ; but Sig. Antonio Matt ani, Profeflbr of Phyfic 

 at Pila, has defcribed them more at large in his 

 work, intituled, Delle produz'wni naturali del 

 Territorio Pijloyefe, Relazione iftorica e philofofica, 

 Piftoya. 1762, 4to. Giufeppe Matani is Profeflbr 

 of Philofophy, and a Botanifti By the Giornak 

 d* It alia, I fee that Mr. Gio. Antonio Stettanti, at 

 Piftoja, is a good Chemift and Botanift. 



Verde di Prato is a ferpentine-ftone or gabbro, 

 green, with black or red and white veins, digging 

 at Prata near Piftoja, 



Grarti/t 



