134 ISLAND OF PAROS. 
Capresso, is believed 1 to have been the Mar- 
pessus mentioned by Servius* and by Stephanus 
Byzantinus* : there are two of those quarries. 
When we arrived at the first, we found, in the 
mouth of the quarry, heaps of fragments de- 
tached from the interior : they were tinged, 
by long exposure to the air, with a reddish 
ochreous hue ; but, upon being broken, exhibited 
the glittering sparry fracture which often charac- 
terizes the remains of Grecian sculpture : and in 
this we instantly recognised the beautiful marble 
which is generally named, by way of distinction, 
the Parian; although the same kind of marble be 
also found in Thasos* ; and it is remarkable that 
the inhabitants of Thasos were a Parian colony 5 . 
The marble of Naxos only differs from the T/iasian 
and Parian in exhibiting a more advanced state 
of crystallization. The peculiar excellence of 
(1) See Toumefort (Toy.duLev. tom.I. p. 239. Lyan, 1717.) and 
the following authorities by him cited. 
(2) " MARPESOS mons est Par'ue insulae." Sertrius in jEneid. vi. 
(3) MAPHE22A ? nd^a if l l XiV I|IJJM. Step'. anus Eyxan- 
tinus. L.Sat. 1694. 
(4) For this remark the author is indebted to Mr. Hawkins, the 
publication of who^e Travel* inGreece has long been anxiously expected, 
by all who know the industry of his researches and the superior accu- 
racy of his observations. 
(5) 'Tir. % n*{/* i*r'irtv e*rtf. Strabon. Geog. Kb. x. p. 711. 
Oxon. 1807. 
