41 A SYSTEM OF 



tranfparcncy of their particles, and their different 

 poffiohs in regard to one another, which may- 

 be {(^h. in the marble from the parifh of Perno 

 in Finland. 



Of the fine glittering limeftone (Seft. ix .), 

 are the following : 



Marmore Bianco di Carrara, the white marble,' 

 ik&Salfgno, the Parian, the white Italian marble; 

 which, however, is never polifned when made 

 life of, but only finely ground down •, the Siglh 

 anlico, Porta Santa, Carnagione di Verona, et di 

 Siena, Tigrato antico, Rojfo antico, Ciallo antico 

 in oro, fiorito, et Giallo abrufciato *, every one of 

 which is fomewhat tranfparent at the edges. 



In the parifh of Fargas near Abo in Finland is 

 found a white marble, which, to judge from the 

 famples I have feen, gives room to hope that it is 

 as good as the Italian, when they have got be- 

 neath the firft ftratum. But the other Swedifh 

 white limeftones, for inftance, that from Lill- 

 kyrke and other places, are either of too coarfe 

 a texture, or fo intermixed with femi- tranfparent 

 particles, as to give them, at a diflance, a very 

 difagfeeable appearance, as if they were dirty. 



The antient ftatuary marble is likewife very 

 tranfparent : but as this tranfparency is equally 

 diffuied through all parts of the ftone, it does no 

 harm, but makes it rather look like alabafler. 



While we are on the fubject of marbles, it is 

 ncceffary to obferve, that as the Italians have a 

 well founded right of giving names to the differ- 

 ent varieties of marbles, and of furniming us 

 with famples, both of fuch as are found in their 

 country, and of foreign ones which in former 

 ages have been employed there, and now are 

 called Antichi; it is in regard to thofe collections, 

 or ctudie, that jnoft Rones which take a polim, 



have 



