What Rome Was Built With: a Description of the Stones Employed in Ancient Times for Its Building And Decoration
What Rome Was Built With: a Description of the Stones Employed in Ancient Times for Its Building And Decoration
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per day, and cost of cubic foot of marble from 4 to 40 lire according to quality, colour, &c. * Total shipment for 1899 was 1,616,679 tons, valued at <£6,476,600 ; 20 per cent, goes to America, 16 per cent, to England and colonies, and 20 per cent, to Italy.^ J. A. Smith states that some qew and Digitized by VjOOQIC MARMOR LUNENSE 86 very beautiful marbles have been discovered near the village of Gragnana and Castelpoggio, north of Carrara. In the vicinity of the Cast^poggio a very fine red marble is found, and some varieties of the well-known black and gold marble are quarried at Monte d'Ami, and Foce near Carrara; also onyx marble at Monte d'Ami.^ Carrara, the greatest centre of marble commerce in the world, with its inexhaustible supplies of material unequalled in variety or colour, texture and beauty, stands alone in its position, as it has done for many hundreds of years, and promises to do in the cen- turies to come. ISLAND OF ELBA Granite A white granite, consisting chiefly of white or whitish felspar, small scales of brown mica and grains of translucent quartz, constitutes the upper part of Monte Capanna near Marciana Marina on the island of Elba.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
per day, and cost of cubic foot of marble from 4 to 40 lire according to quality, colour, &c. * Total shipment for 1899 was 1,616,679 tons, valued at <£6,476,600 ; 20 per cent, goes to America, 16 per cent, to England and colonies, and 20 per cent, to Italy.^ J. A. Smith states that some qew and Digitized by VjOOQIC MARMOR LUNENSE 86 very beautiful marbles have been discovered near the village of Gragnana and Castelpoggio, north of Carrara. In the vicinity of the Cast^poggio a very fine red marble is found, and some varieties of the well-known black and gold marble are quarried at Monte d'Ami, and Foce near Carrara; also onyx marble at Monte d'Ami.^ Carrara, the greatest centre of marble commerce in the world, with its inexhaustible supplies of material unequalled in variety or colour, texture and beauty, stands alone in its position, as it has done for many hundreds of years, and promises to do in the cen- turies to come. ISLAND OF ELBA Granite A white granite, consisting chiefly of white or whitish felspar, small scales of brown mica and grains of translucent quartz, constitutes the upper part of Monte Capanna near Marciana Marina on the island of Elba.
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