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	MARBLE.	383

	American Marble. (Additional from the former edition of this treatise.) The varieties of marble, which substance is inexhaustible in the United States, are very numerous; and I am proud to assert,'that for architectural and ornamental purposes, they will successfully compete with those of any foreign country. The colors are various, from the snow-white to the black with gold and grass-green veins. A small district in New England, of about fifty miles in extent, concentrates, I may say, the marbles which may be collected in Europe through a space of two thousand square miles; for we find in the county of Berkshire, and that of New Haven, the representatives of marbles from Italy and Ireland ; and the discoveries which are constantly being made of additional marble localities are a source of great satisfaction. Thirty years ago, the City Hall, of New York city, was built of marble from "West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, which was transported at great expense, a distance of over four hundred miles; whereas, afterwards, the same quality of marble was discovered on New York island, but a few miles distant. According to Professor Dewey, the county of Berkshire alone turned out forty thousand dollars' worth of marble several years ago. I will here enumerate a few of the most interesting marbles: a. The Philadelphia marble, which is snow or grayish white, and sometimes variegated with blue veins, which takes a very high polish. b. The Potomac marble, which is properly called a breccia, being composed of rounded and angular fragments from the size of a pea to that of an ostrich's egg. Its colors are red, white, gray, and blackish-brown, intermixed ; it takes a very fine polish, and forms a most beautiful ornamental stone. It comes from the banks of the

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1 Page 399 second in August and September; and the more rain, the more
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2 Page 401 weight of twenty-four grains is counted as thirty; so that a
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3 Page 398 body on, or by boring a hole in, the shell. The Chinese are
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4 Page 400 At the Pearl Islands, near the Isthmus of Panama, the pearl
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5 Page 406 In 1620, King Philip IV., of Spain, purchased a pear-shaped
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6 Page 401 weight of twenty-four grains is counted as thirty; so that a
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7 Page 402 reach the age of seven or eight years, and in the fourth yea
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8 Page 403 found in the Elster river, in the kingdom of Saxony, from it
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9 Page 404 nearly two millions of francs ; Julius Csesar presented to S
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10 Page 404 nearly two millions of francs ; Julius Csesar presented to S
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11 Page 405 The seed pearls, when quite round, are worth about one hundr
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12 Page 411 and on the Continent ; around Southampton, in England, these
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13 Page 412 Artificial Pearls. Artificial pearls or beads are of variou
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14 Page 406 n 1620, King Philip IV., of Spain, purchased a pear-shaped p
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15 Page 409 near the town of Paterson, New Jersey, went to a neighbori
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16 Page 410 of Messrs. Tiffany & Co., was purchased from Mr. Howell for
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17 Page 415 The shad-fish, as well as the white-fish of our lakes, must
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18 Page 413 decomposition, and for their preservation numerous chemica
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19 Page 414 Heidelberg, Nuremberg, Sonnenberg, Meistersdorf, in Bohemi
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