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A SYSTEM OF 
Tills 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- 
cumflances. 
I. Scaled Staladlites of very fine particles, Sfa- 
la^ites tejiaceus particulis impalpahilibus. 
a. Of a globular form, S, tejiaceus glohu^ 
lofus, 
1. White, the pea-ftone from Carlfbad, in 
Bohemia. 
2. Grey, Pifolthus^ Oolithus^ from Gott- 
land in Sweden 
h. 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 ^5 and alfo in grottos dug in rocks 
of limeflone. 
€> Of an indetermined figure, Figura incerU. 
Sinter. 
From the cavern called the Baumans- 
hole in the Hartz, the aqueduct at A- 
drianople, in Italy, and elfe where. 
d. Of coherent hollow cones, Conis concretis 
excavatis, 
^ Alfo die Hammites, from its refemblance to the roes or 
fpawii of iifii. It has been exhibited by Authors as petrified 
The Ketton free-iione, of Rutland ihire, is a remark- 
able Hone of this fort. D. C. 
Of 
