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saloon, carbonate of lime, called slate-spar and aphrite ; 
Nat. Hist, 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 crys¬ 
tallized magnesian limestone, called bitter spar , in 
chlorite slate ; a variety of the same called tharan - 
dite , &c.—The substances called gurhovian, from 
Gurhof in Lower Austria : and conite , 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 stalactical limestone, some varieties of which 
bear the name of alabaster in common with com¬ 
pact gypsum ; the peculiar variety called pea 
stone , from the hot springs of Carlsbad in Bohe¬ 
mia, 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-Telippe in Tuscany, where moulds of coins, 
gems, &c. are placed in convenient situations to 
receive the calcareous deposition.— Shell lime¬ 
stone, the most esteemed variety of which is that 
from Carinthia, called lumachella or fire marble 
(see Room I. table-case); and some varieties of 
anthraconite, called also madrepore stone , from a 
distant 
