146 MARBLES OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. near New Glasgow ; at Plaistow Cove, in Co. Inver ness ; and in Long Island, Cape Breton. White marble occurs amongst the metamorphic schists of Five Islands in Nova Scotia, together with coloured serpentinous marble. 1 United States. Statuary marble has been obtained in the U. S., but not of a quality equal to that of Europe. Good ornamental marbles are quarried at Sheffield, Great Barrington, and Lanesborough, in Berkshire, Mass. 2 The columns of the Girard College are from Sheffield, where blocks 50 feet long are sometimes quarried. The marble front of the City Hall, the Custom House, and University of New York, are built of stone from West Stockbridge; that of the Capitol at Albany, from Lanesborough. At Stoneham there is fine statuary marble, but large blocks are not easily obtained. The variety from Great Barrington is handsome and clouded. There are marble quarries also in Vermont, in several counties in the State of New York, at Smithfield in Rhode Island (statuary), near Hagerstown in Maryland, and and a fine clouded variety near Philadelphia. A dun- coloured marble is obtained at New Ashford and Sheffield, Mass., and at Pittsford, Vt. 3 Black marble used in the U. S. comes mostly from 1 Dawson, Acad. Geol. p. 593. 2 Hitchcock, Geol. Rep. p. 162. 3 Dana, Man. Miner, p. 363.