Cuba.—Cave near Matanzas.
Hayti.—Cave near St. Domingo.
Peru.—Cave in the Andes.
New Andalusia.-—Canipe cave.
Mr.
Cramer mentions the size of the stalagmites in the antechamber of
Weyer's cave, as being twelve feet high ; those in Solomon's Temple, of
the same, twenty-five feet high, which are nearly transparent; and its
Hermit's Chandelier, four feet high, and twelve feet in circumference;
the • colossal stalagmite in Washington Hall, which is said to
represent the Father of his Country wrapped in his cloak; Pompey's
column, thirty feet high; also Babylon's Tower, thirty feet in
circumference.
Egyptian Marble.
This is generally milk-white, or grayish-white and bluish, and also black and red, which is called the rosso antico; it is of a close granular structure, and was a great favorite with the ancient architects.
Italian Marbles.
With
these may be counted the Parian marble; the Pentelian marble; the
Venetian or Lombardy marble, which is quite translucent; the Luni and
Carrara marble; and the Laconian marble, or verd-antique. They
have all yielded materials for the most ancient Greek and Italian
sculptors. The Venus de Medici, the Diana Hunting, and Venus leaving
the Bath, are of Parian marble; a Bacchus in repose, a Jason, a Paris,
and many Grecian monuments, are from Pentelian marble, which comes from
the vicinity of Athens.
