Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 328
beautiful columns, or cutinto square blocks for building houses, or perhapssent to some sculptor to be carved into the statueshe has modeled. But only the finest and whitest marble can be used for statues, and nearly all of itis brought from celebrated quarries in Italy. Even now we sometimes find… … A VERMONT MARBLE QlARRV. Washington may occasionally be seen white spiraloutlines of some of these shell-fish, now dead thesemillions of years; and perhaps many of you havewalked over them without reflecting that the firmrock they stood upon was once soft mud in thedepths of an ocean. THE…
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