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Sandstone. Lower Silurian ; fine ; very light buff. Near Madison, Dane County. 



A. Kinnear's quarry. Tenth Census, 1880. 27077. 

 Quartzite. Lower Silurian ; gray ; very hard and compact. Near Waterloo, Jeffer- 

 son County. Wisconsin and Chicago Quarrying Company. Tenth Census, 1880. 

 27154. 



Lower Silurian; gray; very hard and compact. Near Waterloo, Jefferson 



County. Chicago and Wisconsin Quarrying Company. J. S. F. Batchen, 

 1882. 27193. 



WYOMING. 



Granite. Medium ; pink. Sherman, Albany County. Tenth Census, 1880. 



Fine ; light reddish. Sherman, Albany County. Tenth Census, 1880. 26986. 



Hornblende granite. Very coarse ; red. Dale Creek. G. Griffith's quarry. Tenth 



Census, 1880. 25558. 



Methods of Cutting and Polishing. 



The three independent series enumerated below are designed to show the kind of 

 finish commonly applied to the different varieties of stone. The illustrations on 

 Plate IV were drawn from these, and the descriptions given on page 319 explain the 

 methods by which each finish is produced and for what kind of work each is particu- 

 larly adapted. 



(1) The first of these is a series of nineteen blocks, white and colored marbles, in 

 sizes about 12 inches square by 2 inches thick, from quarries at West Rutland, Vt. 

 Gift of the Vermont Marble Company, 1882. They are finished as follows: Rock 

 face, 26878 ; rough-pointed surface, 26877 and 27334 ; fine-pointed surface, 26876 and 

 27340; tooth-chiseled surface, 26875 and 27332; bush-hammered surface, 26874; 

 square-droved surface, 26873 and 27335; sanded surface, 27337; fine-sanded surface, 

 26871 and 27333; pumiced surface, 26872; honed surface, 27336; acid-gloss surface 

 (polished), 26870 and 27338; putty-gloss surface (polished), 26879 and 27339. 



(2) The second is a series of eight blocks of Quincy (Mass. ) granite, in sizes as above, 

 the gift of Henry Barker & Son, Quincy, Mass. Rock face, 27120 ; pointed surface, 

 27118; ax-hammered surface, 27117; sawed surface, 27119; six-cut surface, 27116; 

 eight-cut surface, 27115; ten-cut surface, 27114 ; polished surface, 27117. 



(3) The third is a series of eight blocks of light-colored Ohio sandstone, in sizes 

 about 12 inches square by 3 inches thick. Gift of the McDermott & Berea Stone 

 Company, of Cleveland, Ohio. Rough-pointed surface, 26993; pointed surface, 26995, 

 26992, and 26990 ; fine-pointed surface, 26994 ; sanded surface, 26997 ; tooth-chiseled 

 surface, 26991 ; droved surface, 26996. 



II. Foreign. 



(1) BRITISH PROVINCES OF NORTH AMERICA— CANADA. 



Limestone. Dark gray; crystalline. Montreal, Province of Quebec. J. S. F. 



Batchen, 1883. 28643. 

 - — Dark gray; semi-crystalline; fossiliferous. Near Montreal, Province of Que- 

 bec. J. S. F. Batchen, 1883. 28644. 



Dark; semi-crystalline; fossiliferous. Kingston, Province of Ontario. J. S. 



F. Batchen, 1883. 28645. 

 Slate. Blue-black. Montreal, Province of Quebec. New Rockland Slate Company. 



Centennial, 1876. 25241. 

 Sandstone. Lower Silurian; fine; reddish. Nepigon Bay, Lake Superior, Province 



of Ontario. Verte Island quarry. J. S. F. Batchen, 1883. 27362. 



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