. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 328 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [August, Beat, on the banks of the Garonne is the best marble used in French sculpture, but it is objected to as being of a dirty white, particularly subject to deterioration on exposure to the external air, and it can only be used, therefore, for decorations in rooms.' The principal deposits of marble now wrought are those of the High and Low Pyrenees, the High Garonne, the Arriege, the Aude, the Herault, the Vosges, and Strait
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 328 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [August, Beat, on the banks of the Garonne is the best marble used in French sculpture, but it is objected to as being of a dirty white, particularly subject to deterioration on exposure to the external air, and it can only be used, therefore, for decorations in rooms.' The principal deposits of marble now wrought are those of the High and Low Pyrenees, the High Garonne, the Arriege, the Aude, the Herault, the Vosges, and Straits of Calais. M. Geruzet, of Bag- ncres de Bigorre (High Pyrenees), sent the most beautiful and varied marbles this year. The marbles of Aspan, the stalactite marbles, and the campanamarante marbles were those most admired. M. Geruzet has set np on the Adour a marble work, which has 150 ?aws constantly at work, besides 10 rough saws for cutting out the blocks, 7 lathes, 1 circular saw, a straight moulding frame, 4 machines for making fiat slabs, and 1 machine which makes twelve rosettes at the same time. M. Geruzet has obtained all the prizes usually awarded and the Legion of Honour. M. Fraisse, of Perpignan, exhibited various tnaibles, in- cluding white marble very near statuary, and white saccharoid mar- bles, inlaid with sky blue, veined, yellow, grey, dark brown, and breccia of all colours. A saw mill, moved by water, has been set up by him. M. Philippot, of Perpignan, had works in breccia and dark cherry (Griotte) marble of beautiful colour. Messrs. Tarride and Layerle- Capel of Toulouse sent grand antique marble, and Messrs. Belhomme and Ducos of Toulouse statuary marble. Among the marbles of M. Fournier de St. Amand of Villeneuve-sur-Lot were a table and vase in white marble, and a chimney piece of dark cherry marble, and another in lumacelle marble, all worked by tlie convicts in the county jail. M. Elie Corbier of Anduze (Gard) had some black marbles, as had M. Bernard
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