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50 oily Moiture, it will burn, without being conumed to Ahes. Round about our Colony of Good Hope there is a Sort of coare batard Marble of different Colours, blue, green, red, and ome quite white, and again ome white with black Spots, which the Natives form into all Sorts of Veels and Utenils; as Lamps, Pots to boil in, and even Crucibles to melt Metals in, this Marble tanding Proof againt the Fire. Of this Marble there was brought a Quantity over to Drontheim in Norway, which they made Ue of in the adorning of the Cathedral of that City, as we have it from Peter Claudius Undalin. Amongt