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torrents, which flop or make dangerous the paf- 

 fage till they difappear again. Add to this, that along 

 this road there are but few and thofe very poor 

 inns to be met with, and a people whofe tender- 

 nefs of confcience is not at all remarkable ; I 

 fancy, therefore, you will not difapprove my going 

 by fea. 



Carrara is fituated on one fide, and Seravezza 

 on the other fide of the fame mountain. The grain 

 of the Carrara-marble is cryftalline and fcaly ; that 

 of Seravezza is finer, though it be of the fame 

 origin, and in the fame fituation, as the former. 

 The Carrara- marble is either milk-white, and then 

 it is much refembling the Parian antique marble; 

 or it is grey, and then called Bardiglio or Bigio di 

 Carrara. If there be micaceous flripes acrofs the 

 white or grey, as in the Greek Marmo Cipolino, it 

 is called Cifolinacdo di Carrara. The Seravezza- 

 marble is white, purple-mixed, and extremely 

 beautiful. There are feveral varieties, which go 

 under the names of the ancient marbles, of nearly 

 the fame colours ; fuch as, Fior di Perfico, Pa* 

 vonazzo, Africano, Africano Fiorito, Mifchio 

 di Seravezza. Sometimes the white and purple-* 

 fpots are fo exactly feparated, that the marble re- 

 fembks a calcareous Breccia j in which cafe, it is 

 called Breccia di Seravezza, though properly it 

 mould be called Brocatellb. Sometimes it is black 

 fpotted. 3 The 



