Purbeck, Isle of, the peninsula in South Dorsetshire lying between the river Frome, Poole Harbour, and the English Channel; formerly a royal deer-forest; has a precipitous coast, and inland consists of chalk downs; nearly 100 quarries are wrought of “Purbeck marble.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Puránas * Purcell, Henry