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carbonate of lime, called slate-spar and aphrite; 
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 bitterspar , in 
chlorite slate; a variety of the same called tha - 
randite , &c.—The substances called gurhovian , 
from Gurhof in Lower Austria: and conite , com¬ 
posed of the carbonates of lime and magnesia.— 
Yifo'ous 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-Felippe 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 
antliraconite , called also madrepore stone , from a 
distant resemblance this substance bears to some 
petrifactions 
SALOON. 
Nat. Hist. 
