BEAUTIFUL VARIEGATED MARBLE. 



Dr. Woodward, in his Natural History, says, 

 " That near Ambleside, and in the ridge of 

 mountains leading from thence to Penrith, there 

 is a marble of a dusky green colour, veined with 

 white ; and in Knipe Scar, are several talcy 

 fibrous bodies, which might be employed for 

 the making wicks for lamps, as they will burn 

 very long without any sensible diminution ; they 

 are opake and of an ash-colour. Fossils of va- 

 rious kinds are found in different parts of this 

 country ; as at Threapland the entrochi and tro- 

 chitce of various kinds, some of which are com- 

 pressed and flattened, others raised and truncated, 

 some hollow in the middle, and filled with grey 

 stony matter. Of the same are those found 

 near Strickland-head, on the banks of the rivu- 

 let which runs down from Shap, and by the in- 

 habitants called Fairy-stones. Here also are 

 found the Mycetites. Coralloid bodies are found 

 in great quantities, and differently variegated, 

 near the river Lowther ; they will bear a polish, 

 and are about the hardness of Genoese marble. 

 Some of the kind are found at Halsfell, near 

 Kendal, and appear beautifully variegated, of a 

 brown sandy colour, but so interspersed with 



