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A SYSTEM OF 
of the thick and folid flrata, which lye fb deep 
under-ground, that they have not been fpoiled by 
weathering or decaying. This ftone is likewife 
the moil proper for that purpofe, in preference 
to ail other limeftone, becaufe it is perfectly 
opaque, and reflefts the light from the furface. 
Moft of the Italian and antique marbles are of 
this kind, for inftance ; 
Marmore Nero di Fiandra^ — 
— Giallo Antico, — 
di Flume d' Arno ^ 
di Fioren^a, FaefinOf 
di Porto V mere y 
The black marble of Flanders, 
Yellow, with feme white veins. 
Yellow, with black dendrites. 
Yellow, with brown figures, 
refembling ruins. 
Black, with yellow veins. 
Tartufato d^Ur^ino, 
Nero et Bianco di Car- 
r iray 
Black and white. 
Pale yellow, with fpqts of 9 
blackifii grey colour, 
Brocatella di Spagnat Yellow white and red. 
Palomhina antica, — Pale yellow. / 
All . j. ^ n 1*) Olive colour, with deeper co 
ALberino at monte CaL- { , , ‘11 
iicano. 
PoJJq di fan guifto^ 
■ Carnagione dt Pifoia, 
^ Fior diPerfico di Sara- 
Pa-uonazzOi 
— pardiglio. 
> loured crofs-lines and den- 
3 drites. 
Brownilh red. 
Flefli coloured and yellow, 
Crimfon, white and grey. 
} Reddilh>brown lumps on a 
5 whitilh ground. 
Bluilh-grey. 
Yvith infinite more varieties, v/hofe number is im- 
properly augmented by thofe who for intereft- 
fake colled: fpecimens, and likewife by fome 
yirtiiofos, v/ho pay too much regard to colours 
and figures. From the above we find, that the 
Italian names are for the mofl part taken from 
the colours. When they have a marlole from an 
unknown place, they call it antico. Every one 
that lias a . number of bright colours, is called 
br&catelh^ 
