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The cal- careous ones belong to the marbles. lid-^Pietra fruticohfa, or frutiliofa, orient ale*, an ancient pudding-ftone ; confiding of yellow and red roundilh pebbles inclofed with black iron dendrites. I faw only a fingle fpecimen of that kind. 2. Breccia verde d'Egitto, ferruminated from darker and higher, round and undetermined green fragments, which --Teemed to be terraceous, taking ho remarkable polifh ; however, extremely hard, and agreeable on account of the fine colours. Large Granite... pieces inciofed now and then into its mixture. In the villa Albeni is kept a great vafe, compofed of fragments of this Breccia, large blocks not being to be had ; though the Ancients, as appears by fragments and ruins, . Had large columns of this Breccia. " . VI. Porphyry. -rru*toi \h . Vis y&&)rfido roffb, dark-red, with white oblong fpots j moft commonly employed in Italy. The ground- ITALY. LETTER XVI. 22^ ground colour is dyed in different degrees. There are fome almofl entirely Black. The fpots are commonly fmall and oblong -, ibmetimes larger, and then either oblong, that is, parallelepiped, or an- gulated irregular.
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