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OFFICIAL DESCRIPTIVE AND ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.

MALTA.

30 Testa, Salvatore Strada San Giovanni,Valletta —-Carver.

Vase, carved from Maltese stone, ornamented withsatyrs and flowers, size, 4 feet 8 inches in height, and 2feet 9 inches in breadth.

Vase, in stone, ornamented with eagles; size 1 foot 9inches high, and 1 foot 3 inches broad. Tripods sup-porting tazzas, &c .—Malta (See Plate 359), p. 940.

[Maltese, like Caen stone, is admirably fitted for thestone-carver’s purpose; it works freely, is close in tex-ture and warm in colour; it is well adapted for orna-

mental objects of the class represented in the illustration*where a considerable amount of detail is introduce >which must be produced at a comparatively nl0lie ,..j, ecost: it is not fitted for exposure to the elements. _stone is found in the island of Malta , as its name »cates.—W. C. A.]

VAN DIEMEN’S LAND.

Deane, Duay, & Deane.Samples of wheat, the produce of the colony.