31 6 TRAVELS THROUGH 



amphitheatre. This Granite is of a faint flefh- 

 colour, and commonly employed at Milan in co- 

 lumns in churches and cortiles. There are befides 

 around the Lago Maggiore, and other parts of the 

 Milanefe, different forts of beautiful marbles i bu,t 

 they do not take the finer polifh of feveral other 

 Italian ones. I (hall notice only the following. 



A jwhite tigred marble with fmall black fpots j 

 from Lago Maggiore ; beautiful ; commonly em- 

 ployed at Milan in the altars and churches. 



White (bianco e bigio), from Lago Maggiore; 

 fimilar to the pietra d'TJlria^ but coarfer. The 

 cathedral at Milan is built with it. 



Black marble i from Lago di Como ; very beau- 

 tiful. 



There are likewife fome fine calcareous Breccie, 

 which -the ftone-cutters at Milan call occbiettina -, 

 fuch as thofe of the Lago Maggiore and Lago di, 

 Corno, called Breccia "jecchia^ &c. But Mr. Van- 

 tklli will certainly entertain you better on the na- 

 ture of the Milanefe mountains, which he has exa- 

 mined on purpofe, and promifed to defcribe, as I 

 told you in one of my former Letters. 



The Ambrofian college at Milan poflefles a nu- 

 merous library, a collection of natural curiofities, 

 fome antiquities, pictures, and other artificial 

 things. There are fome valuable and precious 

 pieces ; but the whole is rather refembling a raree- 



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