390 Bliscellanies. 



Appreciating fully the discovery of Godfrey, and anxious to prevent a 

 further desecration of the grave, the annalist of Philadelphia, John F. 

 Watson, Esq., who resides in Germantown, has had the remains of God- 

 frey, of his father and mother, and of a small child, all disinterred with 

 suitable care, and we are happy to add, that the managers of the Laurel 

 Hill cemetery have erected a suitable tomb over the remains. The friends 

 of science, when viewing this already celebrated spot, will not forget to 

 visit the tombs of Godfrey, the inventor of the Quadrant, and of Charles 

 Thomson, the first, and long the confidential Secretary of the Continen- 

 tal Congress, also to be found appropriately ornamented in the same cem- 

 etery. It is high time other attempts were made to perpetuate the mem- 

 ory of the great and good men of the Revolution. — Com. hy 3Ir. Smith 

 of the Phila. Library. 



21. Marble and Serpentine in Vermont. — We have received some beau- 

 tiful marble tablets from Vermont through Mr. Hock Hills, agent of the 

 Black River 3Iarble and Manufacturing Company. 



The quantity is stated to be inexhaustible. 



The marble proper, is in the town of Plymouth, county of Windsor, 

 twenty five miles west of Connecticut river. 



Some of the pieces sent to us have a white basis, with a faint blush of 

 red, and varied by clouds of a light chocolate color ; the structure is suh- 

 crystalline, almost compact, and the same is true of other pieces whose 

 basis is black, but beautifully pictured by white spots, tinted in some parts 

 with gray. The white is often elongated into figures, having consider- 

 able regularity, sometimes almost cylindrical, and suggesting, at a tran- 

 sient glance, the idea of imbedded encrinites, or other organic remains. 

 It is scarcely necessary to remark, that this is not the fact ; and, indeed, 

 the geological character of the country from which the marble comes, is 

 primary, and destitute of organic bodies. 



The serpentines and serpentine marbles are from the neighboring town 

 of Cavendish. 



The color presents every shade of green, and becomes, by easy transi- 

 tions, deep leek-green and almost black. A piece of the latter color, 12 

 inches by 10, now lies before us, and is so highly polished as to be a good 

 mirror;' it is, indeed, very beautiful. The lighter colored pieces have 

 considerable resemblance to the Verd Antique of Milford, Connecticut. 



We cannot doubt that these materials will prove important both to use- 

 ful and ornamental architecture. The pieces before us are all very firm, 

 and would indicate good quarries. 



The serpentine graduates, we are informed, into soapstone of an ex- 

 cellent quality, and the distance of the quarries of serpentine and soap- 

 stone fi-om the river is less than that of the marble. We observe in these 

 serpentines magnetic oxide of iron and chromate of iron, both so charac- 

 teristic of serpentine formations. 



