Merrill, George P. · John Wiley & Sons, Chapman & Hall, Ltd., · leaf 284
henpolished, a brownish red color, with white spots and clouds, dueto fossil corals and crinoids. The grayish white variety, whichis the nearest approach to a truly white marble of any nowfound in the State, ,is greatly esteemed for tombstones, monu-ments, tiling, etc., and is said to be very… … MARBLE Quarries near Concord, Knox County, Tennessee. [From Stone, Chicago, 111.] To face frige 22S. LIMESTONES AND DOLOMITES: MARBLES. 22<j about 180 pounds per cubic foot, which is some 14 poundsheavier than granite. Quite similar variegated marbles aresaid to occur in many of the counties of…
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