CHAP. 10. (7.)—STONE OF NAXOS. STONE OF ARMENIA.
For polishing marble statues, as also for cutting and giving a polish to precious stones, the preference was long given to the stone of Naxos,[2500] such being the name of a kind of touchstone[2501] that is found in the Isle of Cyprus. More recently, however, the stones imported from Armenia for this purpose have displaced those of Naxos.