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 XV. In Ægypt, about Thebes, there is alo found the Alabater, which is dug in large Maes; and the Chernites, which reembles Ivory, and in which, it is aid, Darius was buried; as alo the Porus, which in Colour and Hardnes emulates the Parian Marble, though ingular in its remarkable Lightnes: in this it reembles the Tophus: and on Account of this the Ægyptians generally ued it in the Partitions of their more elegant Edifices.