dore and the crocodile. The other column, sup porting the Lion of St. Mark, is of grey granite, and both are stated to have been brought to Venice from Tyre by the Doge Michielli, in the year 1127. Similar columns of grey and red Egyptian granite are still to be found amongst the ruins of Tyre— not, indeed, the ancient city of Hiram—but of the more modern imperial city, which rose to great magnificence during the Roman Empire. 1 As the former of these columns is unquestionably of Egyp tian origin, so also, I believe, is the latter; for in some cases Egyptian works of art are to be found wrought in a fine-grained greyish granite, as in the case of the statue of the Sphinx in the Vatican collection. There appears, therefore, good ground for believing, that besides the red porphyritic granite, there exists in Egypt a greyish granite of ordinary composition, which, however, was less fre quently used for architectural purposes and works of art than the characteristic granite of Syene ; of this grey granite are some of the columns at the entrance to the portico of Saint Peter’s at Rome ; and probably, also, those which support the portico of the Pantheon, sixteen in number, and resting on pedestals of marble. Obelisks and sarcophagi of red granite are found in all parts of Egypt, of which Pompey’s Pillar, and 1 See Tristram’s Land of Israel, p. 53 (1866).