ITALIAN MARBLES. 153 5. Breccia Marble of the Pyrenees.—One variety con tains, in a brownish-red basis, black, grey, and red, middle-sized spots. It admits a good polish. Another variety has an orange-yellow coloured basis, containing small fragments of a snow-white colour. Both varieties are found in the High Pyrenees. Italian Marbles. 1. Sienna Marble, or Brocalello ili Siena.—It has a yellowish colour, and disposed in large irregular spots, surrounded with veins of bluish-red, passing sometimes into purple. It is by no means uncommon in Sienna. At Montarenti, two leagues from Sienna, another yellow marble is found, which is traversed by black and purplish- black veins. This is frequently employed throughout I taly. 2. Mandclato Marble.—It is a light red marble, with yellowish-white spots, found at Lugezzana in the Ve ronese. Another variety, bearing the same name, oc- • curs at Preosa. They are both’ employed for columns, and various other works. 3. Green Marble of Florence.—It is of a green colour, " hich it owes to an intermixture of steatite. 4. Verdi di Prado Marble.—It is a green marble, mark ed witli dark green spots, having greater intensity than the base or ground. It is found near the little town of Brndo in Tuscany. 5. llovigo Marble.—It is of a white colour, but is in ferior in quality to those of Carrara and Genoa. It is found at Padua. b. Luni Marble.—It is of a white colour, with red- coloured spots and dots. It is found at Luni, on the foast of Tuscany. 7. Venetian
