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carbonate of lime, called slate-spar and aplirite ; 
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 tJia- 
randite^ he, —The substances called gurhovian^ 
from Gurhof in Lower Austria: and conile,^ com¬ 
posed 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-Felippe in Tuscany, where moulds of coins, 
gems, he, are placed in convenient situations to 
receive the calcareous deposition.—zS/ze// 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 resemblance this substance bears to some 
petrifactions 
saloon. 
Nat. Hist. 
