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SALOON. 
Nat. Hist. 
(Case 21.) The same continued-This case 
contains specimens of the lamellated varieties of 
carbonate of lime called slate-spar and aphritc: 
tabular spar with garnets and cinnamon stone; 
granular and compact limestone (marbles); mas¬ 
sive magnesian limestone, called dolomite , and 
(contiguous to it, in the opposite case) the crystal¬ 
lized magnesian limestone, called hitterspar, in 
chlorite slate, &c.-—The substances called gur- 
hovian, from Gurhof in Lower Austria: and co- 
nil e, composed of the carbonates of lime and 
magnesia.— Fibrous limestone , the finest variety 
of which is that from Cumberland, and Andrarum 
in Sweden, with pearly lustre, which has obtained 
the name of satin spar. 
(Case 22 and part of 23.) Various specimens of 
stalaetical limestone, some varieties of which bear 
the name of alabaster in common with compact gyp¬ 
sum; the peculiar variety called pea stone , from the 
hot springs of Carlsbad in Bohemia, and the white 
variety found in the bed of a small river near Tivoli, 
and known by the name of confetti di Tivoli .— 
Calcareous tuf; to which are added some casts of 
medals, made at the baths of San-Felippe in Tus¬ 
cany, where moulds of medals, gems, &c. are placed 
in convenient situations to receive the calcareous 
deposition.— Shell limestone, the most esteemed 
variety of which is that from Carinthia, called 
lumachella or fire marble (see Room I. table-case); 
and 
