Show Concerning the Dolomites The fairyland about Cortina Is familiar fa ta to thousands of ot English tourists tour tourists as The Dolomites Dolomite a arock arock arock rock compounded of ot carbonate of ot lime and carbonate of magnesia takes its name from the French geologist Deodat Deodat Deodat Deo dat de Marquis de who spent his bis time in 1789 and nd the following year while his hia countrymen were busy busy- with revolution and ana warIn war war in visiting this and other Alpine dis dIs- He e first mentions this kind of ot otro ro rock kin in 1791 and and- the word Dolomite first occurs rs in a pamphlet of ot 1802 des describing de de- s scribing a tour of pt his in the Alps about the St SL t. t Gothard Gothard and the Simplon The curious point noted by Mr Coolidge is that the marquis seems to have ave paid no attention to the dolomite rocks Inthe in inthe inthe the neighborhood of ot his own home near Grenoble London London Chronicle |