basaltine

Finer and more ornamental varieties of volcanic stone were introduced from a distance, such as the _peperino_ or grayish-green tufa of the Alban Hills, the _Lapis Albanus_ of the ancients, with its glittering particles of mica interspersed throughout its mass; the hard basaltine lava from a quarry near the tomb of Cæcilia Metella, on the Appian Way, and from the bed of the

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

At this time nothing seemed to interest him more than the account of the two Giants Causeways, or groups of pris - matic basaltine columns, in the Venetian states, in Italy, in fhe LXVth. volume of the Philosophical Transactions, com -

The general biographical dictionary. Revised by A. Chalmers 1812