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place marble has been .obtained for the new Parlia- 

 ment Buildings at Ottawa. Similar white marbles 

 are also found in Beveiiey, Elzevir, and Marmora. 

 These marbles are seldom very fine grained, but 

 from the township of Barrie, marbles of a very fine 

 texture, both white, and colored and variegated have 

 been obtained, through from the remoteness of the 

 locality they have not yet been wrought. A bluish- 

 grey veined marble, which like the proceeding is 

 from the Laurentian region, is quarried near Arn- 

 prior on the Ottawa, and another at Grenville of 

 mingled green and white, containing serpentine, and 

 resembling the Gonnemara marble of Ireland. Simi- 

 lar marbles abound in many other parts of the Lau- 

 rentian country, but little has as yet been done to 

 bring these and the other marbles of the country 

 into use. 



The hills of the Eastern Townships afford many 

 marbles of considerable beauty, as at St. Joseph and 

 at Duds well, the former red veined with white. At 

 the latter place are beds of a cream colour and of 

 grey, veined and mottled with yellow, and some- 

 times with black. The serpentines of the Eastern 

 Townships are also many of them of considerable 

 beauty, being generally dark green, often veined 

 with lighter green and white, and resembling in 

 some cases the famous verd antique, or some of the 

 serpentines of Corsica and Cornwall. None of these 

 materials, which abound in Melbourne, Orford, St. 

 Joseph, and many other parts of this region, have as 

 yet been cut, except for the purpose of exhibition ; 

 although the same serpentines are extensively quar- 

 ried in the neighbouring state of Vermont, and are 

 highly esteemed. 



Many of the secondary limestones of the cham- 

 paign country of Eastern Canada are susceptible of 



