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broad, and two feet thick. It is ufed, at prefent, only for lime, 

 but when its value is better known, it is likely it will be pre- 

 ferved for fuch ornamental mechanic ufes, as it deferves ; being 

 only difcovered early in the year 17615. 



Near Dilfton is a dark blue marble, fhaded with brown, re- 

 fembling Jafper, taking an elegant politure. There is a table of 

 it at Corbridge cut and poliihed by the owner, Mr. Lumley, an in- 

 genious ftone-cutter, from London. 



By the village of Corbridge is a light blue marble, thinly fet with 

 fmall Entrochoi, which being white make a pretty variegation. 

 There are tomb-ftones of it at Halt on, and a mural one erected 

 over Dr. Rotheram, a difTenting minifter, in the church at Hexham. 

 This has a brown made. It is bordered with a molding of black 

 marble from a quarry at Frojlerley, near Wolfingham, in the bi- 

 fhoprick of Durham, thick fet with white coralloid Fungit<e, 

 in all directions (c); rendering it very defirable for chim- 

 ney-pieces, flabs, and tables, frequently polifhed and fold for 

 that ufe by the Corbridge-znift., whofe workmanfhip thefe fepul- 

 chral marbles were, enduring the weather tolerably well, but 

 lofmg their luftre, and doing the marbalift little credit, when 

 long expofed. 



At Cbefeburn-Grange, near Stamfordham, is a marble of the fame 

 colour, prettily variegated alfo with white Entrochoi, admitting 

 a neat politure. There is a mural fepulchral ftonc of it by the 

 fouth end of the altar-table in Newburn-chm'ch, erected to the 

 memory of Mr. Longridge, of Wallbottle. 



(c) Marmor nigrum coraliis refertnm. Da Co/la. Hill. Foil", p. 232. No. 73. 



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