a kind of dark stone of which manyhouses and public buildings are built.
1850. `The Australasian' (Quarterly), Oct. [Footnote], p. 138:
«The ancient Roman ways were paved with polygonal blocks of astone not unlike the trap or bluestone around Melbourne.»
1855. R. Brough Smyth, `Transactions of Philosophical Society,Victoria,' vol. i. p. 25:
«The basalt or `bluestone,' which is well adapted to structuralpurposes, and generally obtains where durability is desired.»
1883. J. Hector, `Handbook to New Zealand,' p. 62:
«Basalts, locally called `bluestones,' occur of a qualityuseful for road-metal, house-blocks, and ordinary rubblemasonry.»
1890. `Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania,' p. xx.[Letter from Mr. S. H. Wintle]:
«The newer basalts, which in Victoria have filled up soextensively Miocene and Pliocene valleys, and river channels,are chiefly vesicular Zeolitic dolerites and anaemesites, the former being well represented by thelight-coloured Malmsbury `bluestone' so extensively employed inbuildings in Melbourne.»