134 The Winooski or Wakefield Marble of Vermont. [February, 
which the red, which in most cases is the predominating color, is 
clear and decided. In this series we have many varieties from 
those in which the red is like that of jasper, or what is known as 
Indian red, to those in which it is simply a delicate pink like the 
lining of a shell. Another series gives us the red always of a 
brownish or chocolate cast, and this is sometimes very dark. 
This in turn passes through all intermediate shades to almost 
white. Ina third series the red shades are less conspicuous, and 
with them are mingled greens and greenish-drabs or sometimes 
lavender shades. It is easy to understand how endless variation 
may be produced by varying combinations of these different 
shades with white. This is true both in the blotched and in the 
shaded layers. Those which show the brecciated structure more 
or less clearly vary as the fragments are large or small, and 
whether many large are mingled with many small or the reverse, 
and whether many large light fragments are mixed with dark 
small ones, or large dark bits with light small ones, and in the 
clouded or shaded layers light bands and blotches may predomi- 
nate in one slab and dark bands in another. It will be obvious 
that no description of such marbles can convey to those who 
have not seen them very clear ideas of their appearance, and no 
attempt to describe all or nearly all of those found will be made. 
The company have for their own convenience and the purposes 
of trade, given names to over thirty varieties, all of which may 
be obtained within a very short distance from their mill on Mal- 
letts bay. A few of*the leading sorts may properly be men- 
tioned, and perhaps it will not be impossible to give a general idea 
of some of them. Nearest Burlington there are layers which 
possibly should be regarded as connecting the marble beds with 
the ordinary red sandrock. These are chiefly of a dark red 
slightly clouded and sprinkled with little grains of transparent 
quartz. This is veined with narrow veins of pure white lime car- 
bonate, which is in pleasing contrast with the red about it. More 
rarely these veins are of quartz. The veins are usually not at all 
numerous, and often are only a small fraction of an inch in width. 
None of the varieties is so hard or so difficult to polish as this, 
and though handsome it is little used. An allied variety exhibits 
the white not as distinct veins but as mi 
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