3£)£ COLOURS FOUND AT POMPEII. 



tnustcla Sarmatica, or polecat of Poland, of the m. Siberiea t 

 or yellow martin of Siberia, and of the Siberian polecat. 

 I have never yet seen the skeletons of these three spe- 

 cies*. 



IX. 



Account of some Colours for Painting, found at Pomjrii: 

 hy Mr. Chaptal. Communicated ta the First Class of 

 the Institute, March the 6th, 1809 1- 



tamt&found in JOiER majesty the empress and queen has done me the 

 a colour shop » , . , , , . P ■ . 



ac Pompeii. honour, to put into my hands seven specimens or paints, 



found in a colour-shop at Pompeii. 

 Tenia vcrte. Of these one has undergone no preparation. It is a green- 



ish and saponaceous clay, such as nature affords in various 

 parts of the globe, and analogous to what is known by the 

 name of terra di Verona, or terra verte. 

 Tellow ochre. The second is a tine yellow ochre, which has been freed 

 by washing, as is done in the present day, from al! the 

 matter injurious to its beauty or > pureness. As this sub- 

 stance is reddened by calcination with a very moderate heat, 

 it. affords a fresh proof, that the ashes, by which Pompeii 

 was overwhelmed, retained but a very slight warmth. 

 Sgaaish k' - 3 is a brown red, of the same nature as that at pre- 



Urown. g e nt in our shops, which is employed for the coarse reddish 



coat applied to casks in seaports, and to the doors and win- 

 All these ani- * One of the things that must appear at first sight the most astonish- 

 mals found in ing in the collection of the fossil bones, with which these caverns are 

 hat climates. £]i e d ) \ s t0 find there bones of animals, which we should suppose could 

 not live in the same climate: but it is possible, that all these animals 

 Way have existed in the same country. The animals of the genus felis, 

 whether lions or tigers, indicate, that the country at that time must have 

 enjoyed a pretty warm climate ; and we know from unquestionable testi- 

 mony, that the wolf, jackal, polecat, and bear, are all found m Africa 

 likewise. J. C. Delamtliherie. 



f Annates de Chimie, vol. LXX, p. 22. 



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