20 A SYSTEM OF 



This is formed from water faturated with 

 lime, which, while running or dropping, de- 

 pofits by degrees the calcareous earth which 

 it has carried along with it from clefts of 

 rocks, or from out of the earth. It is there- 

 fore commonly of a fcaly, though fome- 

 times of a folid and fparry texture. Its ex- 

 ternal figure depends on the place where it 

 is formed, or the quantity of the matter 

 contained in the water, and other like cir- 

 cumftances. 

 i. Scaled Stalactites of very fine particles, Sta- 

 lactites teftaceus particulis impalpabilibus. 

 a. Of a globular form, S. teftaceus globu- 

 lofus. 

 i . White, the pea-flone from Carlfbad, in 



Bohemia. 

 2. Grey, Pi foil thus, Oolithus, from Gott- 

 land in Sweden *. 

 K Hollow, in the form of a cone, Coniformis 

 perforatus. 



i. White, is found every where in vaults 

 made with mortar, and through which 

 water has had an opportunity to pene- 

 trate ; and alfo in grottos dug in rocks 

 of limeitone. 

 C ', Of an indetermined figure, Figura incerta. 

 Sinter. 



From the cavern called the Baumans- 

 hole in the Hartz, the aqueduct at A- 

 drianople, in Italy, and ellewhere. 

 d. Of coherent hollow cones, Conis concretis 

 excavatis. 



* Alfo the Haromites, from its refemblance to the roes or 

 fpavvn of fifh. It has been exhibited by Authors as petrified 

 roes. The Ketton free-ftone, of Rutland fhire, is a remark- 

 able florae of this fort. D. C. 



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