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OF STONES. 



It is the Blumenftein, i. e. the .F/o-uw-ftone, of the Germans (h). 

 From the more of the brook below Simonburn-ca.ft.le. I found a 

 variety of it on the fame fhore, which I broke, and took out a 

 fmall thick Conch-ftictt, and a fmall Turbo, entire, in their natu- 

 ral colours, white, with a tinge of red. 



10. A greyifii-black Marmorite with numerous fragments of 

 white turbinated {hells, the edges of fome, and the Volute of others 

 confpicuous, forming an elegant variegation. From the OJlium 

 of Go/?o-burn, near Wark, in Tynedale. 



11. A reddifh-brown marmorite, with numerous minute frag- 

 ments of fea-fhells, of abright orange-yellow, forming a large and 

 beautiful figure, like a wreath ; fmall pieces of entrochi thinly 

 fcattered on the furface, of a bright white colour. The wreath, 

 or laureated figure, goes through the whole flone, fair and con- 

 fpicuous on both fides. From the fhore of a ftreamlet on the 

 north-fide of Simonburn-czftle. 



12. A greyifh-brown marmorite, thick fet with fmall entrochi, 

 of a bright white, lying in various directions, the lides of fome, 

 and the ends of others appearing, forming a moft pleafing varie- 

 gation ; from the fhore of the brook below Simonburn'Ca&le, where 

 at this time is a very large mafs of it among a heap of flones on 

 the fouth-fide of the ford (i). 



13. A marmorite of a chocolate-ground, with fmall zones or 

 circles of a light and deep green, very beautiful. From the fame 

 fhore. 



(h) Brudman. Epift. Itin. Cen. ii. Epift. 26. p. 246. No. 29. Da Cojla. Hifl. Fo/T. 

 P- 238- 



(i) Marmor fufco-cinereum entrochis refertum. Da C^Jia. 235, 236. Woodward. Cat. 

 A. x. b. 6r. 



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