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but water or air, than if there be a diamond between them ; 
not that the parts of the diamond are more folid, but be- 
caufe the parts of water, being more eafily feparable, give 
way to the approach of the two pieces of marble. Locke. 
Thou marble hew’ft, ere long to part with breath ; 
And houfes rear’d:, unmindful of thy death. Sandys. 
A done remarkable for the fculpture or infeription : as,The 
Oxford marbles. (See vol. ii. p. 245.)—Little balls, fuppofed 
to be of marble, with which children play.— Marbles taught 
them percuflion, and the laws of motion ; nutcrackers the 
life of the lever. Arbuthnot and Pope. —In ancient times, 
nuts, round itones, or any other fmall things that could be 
eafily bowled along, were ufed indead of marbles: thofe 
now played with feem to be of modern invention. It is Laid 
of Augultus when young, that by way of amufement he 
fpent many hours by playing with little moorilh boys cum 
nucibus , with nuts. Suelon. in Vita Aug. cap. 83. The au¬ 
thor of one of the Tatlers calls it “ a game of marbles not 
unlike the common taw.” N° 112. The marbles at pre¬ 
lent in ufe are rnoftly imported from Holland, where it is 
laid they are made by breaking the (tone alabafter, or other 
fubflance, into pieces, or chips, of a fuitable fize ; thefe 
are put into an iron mill which turns by w'ater; there are 
feveral partitions with rafps within, cut floatways, not 
with teeth, which turn conlfantly round with great fwift- 
nefs; the friction againlt the rafps makes them round, 
and as they are formed they fall out of different holes, 
into which fize or chance throws them. They are brought 
from Nuremberg to Rotterdam, down the Rhine, and 
from thence difperfed over Europe. 
MAR'BLE, adj. Made of marble: 
Pigmalion’s fate reverft is mine. 
His marble love took flefb and blood: 
All that I worlhipp’d as divine. 
That beauty, now ’tis underitood, 
Appears to have no more of life 
Than that whereof he fram’d his wife. Waller. 
Variegated, or ftained like marble.—The appendix {hall 
be printed by itfelf. Hitched, and with a marble cover. 
Swift. 
To MAR'BLE, v.a. To variegate or vein like marble. 
_Very well flecked marbled paper did not caff any of its 
diftinft colours upon the wall with an equal diffufion. 
Beyle. 
Marbled with fage, the hard’ning clieefe fhe prefs’d, 
And yellow butter Marian’s flail profefs’d. Gay. 
MAR'BLE-BREASTED, adj. Proof againft courtfliip. 
—Live you the marble-breajled tyrant ftill ? Shakefp. Twelfth 
Night. 
MAR'BLE-CONSTANT, adj. As impenetrable as 
marble: 
Now from head to foot 
I ’m marble-conjlant. Shakefp. Ant. and Cleopatra. 
MAR'BLE HAR'BOUR, a bay in the Mergui Archi¬ 
pelago, on the eaft coalt of Sullivan’s Ifland. Lat. 10. 58.N. 
MARBLE HEAD', a feaport town of the itate of Maf- 
fachufetts : twelve miles eaff of Bolton. Lat. 42. 27. N. 
Ion. 70. 48. W. 
MAR'BLE-HEARTED, adj. Cruel 5 infen Able; hard¬ 
hearted : 
Ingratitude ! thou marble-hearted fiend, 
More hideous, when thou Ihow’ft thee in a child, 
Than the fea-monfter. Shakefp. King Lear. 
MARBLE I'SLAND, a fmall ifland in the Mergui Ar¬ 
chipelago, at the entrance of Marble Harbour. 
MARBLE I'SLAND, an ifland in Hudfon’s Bay. Lat. 
62. 35. N. Ion. 91. 30. W. 
MARBLE RIV'ER, a river of North America. Near 
it is a mountain, from whence the Indians get a fort of 
red (tone, out of which they hew the bowls ot their pipes 
In fome of thefe parts is found a black hard clay, or rather 
Hone, of which the Maudoweffies make their family uten- 
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fils. This country likewife abounds with milk-white 
clay, of which china-ware might be made equal in good- 
nefs to the Aliatic ; and alfo with a blue clay that lerves 
the Indians for paint; with this laff they contrive, by 
mixing it with the red Itone powdered, to paint themfelves 
of different colours. Thofe who can get the blue clay here 
mentioned, paint themfelves very much with it; particular¬ 
ly when they are about to begin their fports and paftimes. 
It is alio etteemed by them a mark of peace, as it has a 
refemblance of the blue Iky, which with them is a fymbot 
of it, and made ufe of in their fpeeches as a figurative ex- 
preflion to denote peace. When they wifli to (how that 
their inclinations are pacific towards other tribes, they 
greatly ornament both themfelves and their belts with ir. 
MAR'BLE TOWN, a townlhip in Ullter county, New 
York, on the weft fide of Hudfon river, north-weft of 
Pultz, adjoining. It contains 2847 inhabitants : fixty 
miles north-north-weft of New York. 
MAR'BLING,/! The aft of variegating in refemblance 
of marble. The term is more particularly ufed for the 
method of preparing and colouring what is then called 
marbled paper. 
There are feveral kinds of marbled paper ; but the prin¬ 
cipal difference of them lies in the forms in which the co¬ 
lours are laid on the ground ; lome being difpoled in whirls 
or circumvolutions ; fome in jagged lengths; and others 
only in fpots of a roundifh or oval figure. The general 
manner of managing each kind is, neverthelefs, the fame ; 
being the dipping the paper, in a folution of gum-traga- 
cantb, or, as it is commonly called, gum-dragon ; over which 
the colours, previoufly prepared with ox-gall and fpiritof 
wine, are firlt fpread. The peculiar apparatus neceffary 
for this purpofe, is a trough for containing the gum-tra- 
gacanth and the colours ; a comb for dilpoling them in 
the figure ufually chofen ; and a burnifliing-ltone tor polilh- 
ing the paper. The trough may be of any kind of wood ; 
and muff be fomewhat larger than the Iheets of paper for 
marbling of which it is to be employed ; but the (ides of it 
need only rife about two inches above the bottom ; for, by' 
making it thus fliallow, the lei's quantity of the folution 
of the gum will ferve to fill it. The comb may be alfo of 
wood, and five inches in length ; but Ihould have brafs 
teeth, which may be about two inches long, and placed 
at about a quarter of an inch diltance from each other. 
The burnilhing-ftone may be of jafper or agate; but, as 
thofe (tones are very dear when of fufficient largenefs, 
marble orglafs may be ufed, provided their furface be po- 
lithed to a greater degree of fmoothnefs. Thefe imple¬ 
ments being prepared, the folution of gum-tragacanth 
muff be made, by putting a fufficient proportion of the 
gum, which fliould be white and clear from all foulnefs, 
into clean water, and letting it remain there a day or 
two, frequently breaking the lumps and furring it till 
the whole lhall appear diffolved and equally mixed with 
the water. The confiffence of the folution (hould be 
nearly that of ftrong guin-water uled in miniature paint¬ 
ing ; and, if it appear thicker, water muff be added ; or, if- 
thinner, more of the gum. When tiie folution is thus- 
brought to a due Itate, it mull be palled through a linen 
cloth ; and, being then put into the trough, it will be 
ready to receive the colours. The colours employed for 
red are. carmine, lake, rofe-pink, and vermilion ; but the 
two laft are too hard and glaring, unlefs they be mixed 
with rofe-pink or lake, to bring them to a foftercaft ; and, 
with refpett to the carmine and lake, they are too dear 
.for common purpofes; for yellow, Dutch pink and yellow 
.ochre may be employed : for blue, Pruffian blue and verdi- 
ter may be uled : for green, verdigris, a mixture of Dutch 
pink and Pruffian blue or verditer, in different propor¬ 
tions : for orange, the orange lake, or a mixture of ver¬ 
milion, or red lead, with Dutch pink : for purple, rofe- 
pink and Pruffian blue. Thefe feveral colours Ihould be 
ground with fpirit of wine till they are of a proper fine- 
nel's ; and then, at the time of uling them, a little filh- 
gall, or in default of it the gall of a beaft, Ihould be added* 
by grinding them over again with it. The proper pro¬ 
portion-. 
