i6 A St.STEM 0;F 
1. With coarfe or large fcales. 
a. White, found at Garpenberg, a copper 
mine in the province of Dalarne in Swe- 
den. 
It is likewife found at Tunaberg, a copper 
mine in the province of Sodermanland ; 
but with thefe different qualities, that it 
lofes in a calcining heat forty per cent, 
of its weight ; and, expofed to the air, 
gets a brownifh efflorercence, a fign that 
it contains fome iron, and is a medium 
between a lirneftone and the white iron 
ore called Stahlfteine *, nor does it ex- 
cite any effervefcencie with acids in its 
crude ftate. 
h, Reddifli yellow, from Finland. 
2. With fmall fcales. 
a. White, from the parifh of Tima in Da- 
larne, in the rnarble quarries at JCoJmor- 
den in the province of Oftecgotiand, the 
parifh of Lillkyrke hi the province of Ne- 
rike, and at Rimitp^and Pargas in Fin- 
land. 
3. Fine glittering or fparkling. 
a. White, from Carrara in Italy, and Par- 
gas in Finland. 
i. Of many colours.' This variety makes out 
a great number of the foreign marbles 
* This fpecies of limeftone takes a good poHih, and is 
therefore ufed as marble whenever it is found of a fine colour. 
It is befides to be remarked^ that the grained and fcaly lime- 
ftones (Sed:» viii. and ix.) are found either in veins, or form 
whole mountains, that ihew ho flrata, nor figns of petri- 
fadions. 
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