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  TWENTY-FIRST 
  REPORT 
  ON 
  THE 
  STATE 
  CABINET. 
  

  

  From 
  the 
  Rockport 
  Granite 
  Company. 
  

   A 
  small, 
  partly 
  dressed 
  block 
  of 
  Granite 
  ; 
  Eockport, 
  Cape 
  Ann, 
  

   Mass. 
  

  

  From 
  George 
  Wrightson, 
  New 
  York. 
  

   A 
  block 
  of 
  coarse 
  Grey 
  Porphyritic 
  Granite, 
  one 
  foot 
  long 
  by 
  

   six 
  inches 
  wide 
  and 
  thick. 
  

  

  MARBLES— 
  MET 
  AMORPHIC 
  LIMESTONES. 
  

  

  From 
  Sheldons 
  & 
  Slason. 
  

  

  (Through 
  S. 
  W. 
  Rowell, 
  of 
  Rutland, 
  Vt.) 
  

  

  Five 
  blocks 
  of 
  Marble 
  of 
  one 
  cubic 
  foot 
  each, 
  showing 
  all 
  the 
  

  

  varieties 
  of 
  marble 
  in 
  the 
  quarries 
  at 
  Rutland, 
  Vt. 
  

  

  From 
  the 
  Otter 
  Creek 
  Marble 
  Company, 
  of 
  Sutherland 
  Falls. 
  

   Four 
  dressed 
  blocks 
  of 
  Marble, 
  showing 
  variety 
  of 
  texture, 
  

  

  color 
  and 
  mode 
  of 
  dressing. 
  

   Four 
  blocks 
  of 
  Marble, 
  two 
  of 
  them 
  six-inch 
  cubes, 
  showing 
  

  

  varieties 
  of 
  color 
  and 
  dressing. 
  

  

  From 
  H. 
  Tudor 
  Brownell, 
  of 
  Hartford, 
  Ct. 
  

  

  Two 
  dressed 
  blocks 
  of 
  Marble 
  of 
  one 
  cubic 
  foot 
  each, 
  one 
  a 
  

  

  white 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  a 
  colored 
  variety, 
  from 
  Salisbury, 
  Ct. 
  

  

  From 
  the 
  Berkshire 
  Marble 
  Company. 
  

   A 
  fine 
  block 
  of 
  dressed 
  Marble 
  of 
  one 
  cubic 
  foot, 
  showing 
  

   variety 
  of 
  dressing, 
  from 
  Alford, 
  Mass. 
  

  

  From 
  Masterton 
  & 
  Hall, 
  of 
  Tuckahoe, 
  Westchester 
  county, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

   Two 
  dressed 
  blocks 
  of 
  White 
  Marble, 
  one 
  of 
  a 
  cubic 
  foot 
  and 
  

  

  the 
  other 
  a 
  six-inch 
  cube 
  ; 
  the 
  same 
  marble 
  so 
  extensively 
  

  

  used 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  for 
  building 
  purposes. 
  

   Two 
  blocks 
  of 
  White 
  Marble 
  of 
  about 
  one 
  cubic 
  foot 
  each, 
  from 
  

  

  from 
  Hastings, 
  N. 
  Y.; 
  brought 
  in 
  by 
  the 
  Curator. 
  

  

  LIMESTONES 
  UNALTERED. 
  

  

  From 
  Hughes, 
  Syracuse, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  A 
  dressed 
  block 
  of 
  Onondaga 
  Limestone 
  of 
  about 
  10x10x8 
  

   inches, 
  showing 
  variety 
  of 
  dressing 
  and 
  having 
  one 
  face 
  

   polished. 
  

  

  From 
  James 
  Shanahan, 
  of 
  Tribes 
  Hill, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

   Two 
  blocks 
  of 
  Blue 
  Trenton 
  Limestone, 
  one 
  of 
  a 
  cubic 
  foot, 
  

   showing 
  a 
  variety 
  of 
  dressing, 
  the 
  other 
  a 
  ten-inch 
  cube 
  more 
  

   roughly 
  dressed. 
  

  

  