120 MARBLE. work, and for vases, tables, and miniature obelisks. But chimney-pieces, columns, &c., are now made at Ashford, Bakewell, Allport, Buckland Hollow, and at Derby. The imitations of ‘Florentine work/ or Mosaic, are remarkable for beauty of design and fineness of execution. 1 Anglesea. A beautiful marble, apparently formed by a combination of crystalline limestone and serpentine, called Mona marble, is obtained in Anglesea. Its colours are dark green, leek green, and sometimes purple, irregularly blended with white. 2 Isle of Man. The following is Gwilt’s account of these marbles, (i) Black flagstone from Pool- wash, worked for upwards of 200 years, and which is used in the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral; presented by Bishop Thomas Wilson. (2) Grey shelly and encrinital marble, from Poolwasli. (3) Black, ex tremely hard and durable, and taking a good polish, from Port St. Mary. (4) Pale marble, from Scarlett. Of this durable stone Castle Bushen, 900 years old, is built. These marbles are derived from the Car boniferous limestone which occupies a small district at the southern extremity of the island. Ireland. The Carboniferous limestone districts of 1 Gwilt, Encyc. Arch. p. 492. 2 Ibid. Grey marble is also quarried at Kendal, in Cumber land.