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14. A marmorite of an olive-green ground, fpotted and varie- 

 gated with a florid and deep red. It is a beautiful ftone. From 

 the fhore of North Tyne, by the Strotber-houfe, near Chipchace- 

 mill. 



15. A marmorite compofed of pebbles, of various fizes, and 

 of various colours, brown, red, purple, and cinereous with 

 purpley?r/>, forming a beautiful variegation ; held together by 

 a reddim-brown cement. In its native flate in the earth it has 

 an inveftient cruft. From the more of the brook below Go/ton^ 

 where it is not unfrequent. I have a variety of it compofed of 

 fmaller pebbles, brown, red, and yellow, from the fhore of the 

 brook below Ntmivick-gzi'den, large enough for a fmall table. 



1 6. An alabaflrine marmorite, compofed of flat plates, laid 

 evenly and clofely upon one another, approaching to parallello- 

 pepid figures, of a yellowifh-white, bright and pellucid. It is 

 of a mattery texture in the mafs, eafily breaking into pieces of 

 different fizes ; fome of the larger pieces elegantly floated length- 

 ways, like the molding of a cornice. From the limeftone- 

 quarry at Four/tones, where it is frequent. It was the Marmor Phen- 

 gites of the Antients (k), who had it from Cappachcia. They ufed 

 it much in their public buildings. The famous Temple of For- 

 tune, which had not a fingle window, was built with it, and was 

 perfectly light from its bright tranfparence, in which confifts 

 its beauty. In works that do not require ftrength, it is very fine 

 and ornamental, taking an excellent polifli. 



17. A marmorite of a fibrous texture, with beautiful veins, 

 and radiated circles, of a flefli-colour ; fome of the circles varic- 



(k) Alabaftrites lucidifllma, fruftulofa, albido-flavefcens : quas marmor phcngites anti- 

 quorum. Hill. Hift. Fo(T. p. 490. No. 2. 



Marmor phcngites Plin. 2. p. 752. C&falpin. p. 95. DC Boot, 490, & 520. 



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