A SYSTEM OF 
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Cmfifparency of their particles, and their diiTerent 
portions in regard to one another, which may 
fee feen in the marble from the pariih of Ferno 
m Finland.- 
Of the fine glittering limellonc (Seel, ix.)^ 
^re the following : 
Marmore Bianco di Carrara^ the white marble,, 
the Saligno^ the Parian^ the white Italian marble ^ 
which, however, is never polifned when made 
tjfe of, but only finely ground down ; the Bigia 
miico^ Porta Santa^ Carnagione di Verona^ et di 
Biina^ Pigrato antico^ Roffo antico^ Giallo antico 
in oroj fiorito^ et Giallo ahrufeiato % 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 firil feratum. But the other Sv/edifh 
white limeftones, for infiance, that from Lill- 
kyrke and other places, are cither of too coarfe 
a texture, or fo intermixed with femi-tranfparent 
particles, as to give them, at a diflance, a very 
difagreeable.appearance, as if they were dirty. 
The antient fiatuary marble is likewife very 
tranfparent : but as this tranfparency is equally 
diffufed through all parts of the ftone, it does no 
harm, but makes it rather look like alabafter. 
While we are on the fubjefl of marbles, it is 
neceifary to obferve, that as the Italians have a 
well founded right of giving names to tfie differ- 
ent varieties of marbles, and of furnifhing 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 tftofe colleftions, 
or otudicy that moil ftones which take a poiifli, 
have 
