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not take off the polilh of the marble, or metal. Then 
take cuttle-bone and water, and grind the fame more le¬ 
vel than the plane or knife may have left it. After waffl¬ 
ing the fame'well, take fcagliola or plafter, mixed with 
the fame fize-water and colours, but more liquid. Then 
lay the fame over the waflied parts with a trowel, fo as to 
flop thofe pores which may be perceived. Let this re¬ 
main until the fame comes to be dry and hard ; and then 
again, with .cuttle-bone and water, grind that, Hopping 
off fo that none remains but in the pores. Fourthly, let 
the work dry for fix days, then paint the fame over with 
olive-oil ; but great care muff be taken not to oil the mar¬ 
ble, or metal. When the fame is dry, take tripoli, ground 
into fine powder, and with a piece of foft leather rub 
over the work until i.t has obtained a fine poliffi. Fifthly, 
the ground of the marble, or metal, muff be made rough, 
for the fcagliola or plafter to ftick the better upon it. 
Of Artificial Marbles. 
The ftucco, of which ftatues, buffs, baffo-relievoes, and 
other ornaments of architecture, are made, ought to be 
marble pulv.erifed, mixed in a certain proportion with 
plafter; the whole well fifted, worked up with water, and 
ufed like common plafter. 
There is alfo a kind of artificial marble made of the 
flaky felenites, or a tranfparent ftone refembling plafter; 
which becomes very hard, receives a tolerable poliffi, and 
may deceive a good eye. This kind of felenites refem- 
bles Mufcovy talc. 
There is another fort of artificial marble, formed by 
corrofive tinftures, which, penetrating into white marble 
to the depth of a line or more, imitate the various co- 
lours of other dearer marbles. 
There is alfo a preparation of brimftone in imitation of 
marble. To do this, you mull provide yourfelf with a 
fiat and fmooth piece of marble; on this make a border, 
or wall, to encompafs either a fquare or oval table, which 
may be done either with wax or clay. Then, having pro¬ 
vided feveral forts of colours, as white-lead, vermilion, 
lake, orpiinent, malticot, fmalt, Pruflian blue, &c. melton 
a flow fire fome brimftone, in feveral glazed pipkins ; put 
one particular fort of colour into each, and (tir it well 
together; then, having before oiled the marble all over 
within the wall, with one colour quickly drop fpots upon 
it of larger and lefs fize; after this, take another colour, 
gud do as before; and fo on, till the ftone is covered with 
fpots of all the colours you defign to ufe. When this is 
done, you are next to confider what colour the mafs or 
ground of your table is to be: if of a grey colour, then 
take fine fifted allies, and mix it up with melted brim¬ 
ftone if red, with Englilh red ochre; if white, with 
white-lead; if black, with lamp or ivory black. Your 
brimftone for the ground mull be pretty hot, that the co¬ 
loured drops on the ftone may unite and incorporate with 
it. When' the ground is poured even all over, you are 
next, if judged necefl’ary, to put a thin wainfeot board 
upon it; this mutt be done whilft the brimftone is hot, 
making alfo the board hot, which ought to be thoroughly 
dry, in order to caufe the brimftone to ftick the better to 
it. When the whole is cold, take it up, and-polifh it 
with a cloth and oil, and it will look very beautiful. 
Smith's,Laboratory, p.248. .. 
MAR'MORA, a river of European Turkey, which 
runs into the Strimon, fix miles north-weft of Emboli, 
in the province of Macedonia. 
MAR'MORA, a town of European Turkey, in Ma¬ 
cedonia : thirty-four miles eaft-north-eaft of Saloniki. 
MAR'MORA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia: 
thirty-three miles eaft of Magnifa, and thirty north-weft 
of Alalhehr. Lat. 38. 43. N. Ion. 28. E. 
MAR'MORA, a town of Naples, in Calabria Ultra: 
fixteen miles welt of St. Severin. 
MAR1MOR4-, a town of France, in the department of 
the Stura : nineteen miles weft of Coni. 
MAR'MORA, an ifland in the Straits of Conftantino- 
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pie, or Sea-of Marmora, about twelve leagues in circuit. 
It is lofty, mountainous, and tolerably fertile ; it con¬ 
tains feveral towns or villages, rather populous; it has 
two harbours, which are by no means extenfive, fitu- 
ated towards the fouth. The inhabitants, moftly Greek. 
Chriftians, have a few flocks of fheep; they cultivate the 
vine, the olive-tree, and cotton, and various fpecies of 
grain. Marmora formerly bore the names of Nevris, frona 
M^of, the fawn of a doe; Elaphonnefus, from thutpos, a 
flag 5 apd Proconnefus, from rngo xoj, a young flag, and 
vnaoi;, ifland. Thefe latter names were given to it from 
the number of flags which were met with in it: but Oli¬ 
vier thinks that none exift there at this day, as the woods 
are deftroyed, and the mountains almoft naked. This 
ifland has received its name Marmora from a white mar¬ 
ble, a little veined with grey and bluifli, which is fur- 
nifhed by it in great quantities. Although the grain of 
this marble is not fine, nor its colours beautiful and 
mixed, the Greeks efteemed it formerly, and made fre¬ 
quent ufe of it: fragments of it are found among the 
ruins of almoft all the ancient cities. It is faid, that the 
ftately palace of Maufolus, at Halicarnaffus, was lined 
with this marble. At the prefent day, it is chiefly 
wrought for fepulcliral ftones by the Turks, Armenians, 
and Europeans ; being feldom employed in the conftruc- 
tion of houfes. Lat. 40. 30. N. Ion. 27. 33. E. 
MAR'MORA (Sea of), or White Sea, a gulf be¬ 
tween the ftraits of Conftantinople and the ftraits of Gal¬ 
lipoli ; about ninety miles from eaft to weft, and thirty- 
three from north to fouth. It takes its name from that 
of the ifland above mentioned. 
MAR'MORA. See Milasa. 
MAR'MORATED, adj. Covered with marble; incrufi- 
tated with marble. Scott. 
MARMORA'TION, f. [ marmor , Lat.] Incruftatioa 
with marble. 
MARMO'REAN, or Marmoreous, adj. \marmorats t 
Lat.] Made of marble. 
MARMOR'ICE, a town of Afiatic Turkey, on the 
fouth coalt of the province of Natolia. The town is 
final], but fituated in a bay, which forms, fays fir R. T. 
Wilfon, one of the fineft harbours in the world. The 
entrance is narrow, and hardly difcernible till within a 
cable’s length. The Britilh fleet lay here in 1799, to wait 
for neceffaries in the expedition to Egypt. Lat. 36. 52. N. 
Ion. 28. 31. E. 
MAR'MOSETjyi [marmoti/et, Fr.] A finall monkey s 
I will inftruct thee how 
To fnare the nimble marmozet. Skakefpeare's Tempeji. 
MAR'MOSETS, rocks on the north coalt of Hifpa- 
niola, at the entrance of Port Plate. 
MAR'MOT, or Marmo'to ,f. [Italian.] The mar- 
motto, or mus alpinus, as big or bigger than a rabbit, 
which abfeonds all water, doth live upon its own fat. Ray. 
—See Arctomys, vol. ii. p. 129. 
MARMOUTIE'R, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Rhine: three miles fouth of Savern* 
and fifteen weft-nortli-weft of Strafburg. 
■' MARNAY' le BOU'RG, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Upper Saone : twelve miles fouth-eaft of 
Gray, and eleven weft of Befan^on. 
MARNE, a town of Perfia, in the province of Cho- 
rafan : 210 miles north of Herat, and 195 eaft of Melchid. 
MARNE, a town of the duchy of Holftein : five miles 
north-weft of Brunfhuttel. 
MARNE, a river of France, which rifes in the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Marne, about three miles to the eaft of 
Langres; paffes by or near to Chaumont, Joinville, St. 
Dizier, Vitry le Francois, Chaalons, Epernay, Damerie, 
Dormans, Chatillon, Chateau Thierry, La Ferte, Charly, 
Lify fur Ourcq, Meaux, Lagny, &c. and joins the Seine at 
Charenton. 
MARNE, a department of France, bounded on the 
north by the departments of the Aifne and Ardennes, on 
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