DOLOMITE.
The Italo-Austrian war has drawn attention to that portion of the Alps called "The Dolomites." Dolomite, ,a rock composed, of carbonate of lime and carbonate of magnesia, takes its name from the French geologist, >- Deodat de Gratet, Marquis de Dolomieu, who spent hia time in 1789 and the following years, while his countrymen were busy with revolution and war, in visiting this and other Alpine districts. Hefirst mentions this kind of rock in 1791, and the word '"Dolomite" first occurs in a pamphlet of 1802, describing ' a tour of his in the Alps about the St. Gothard and the Simplon. The curious point, noted by Mr. Coolidge, is that the Marquis seems to have paid no attention to the dolomite rocks in the neighbourhood of his own home, Dolomieu, near Grenoble.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 10
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132DOLOMITE. Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 10
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