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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT. 



by the disintegration of a sandstone containing a considerable 

 proportion of felspathic rock. The subsoil was paler, and more 

 grey in tint. It appeared very similar in all respects to the soil, 

 but contained some fragments of a trap rock. Judging, however, 

 from the small quantity of alkalies found in the analysis, but a 

 small proportion of the soil can have been formed from this 

 substance. 



Soluble in Hydrochloric Acid. 



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SOIL FROM MR BOWIE, MAINS OF KELLY. 



A soil of a very uniform appearance. Pale grey in colour, and 

 free from stones. It is in a fine state of division, and contains 

 more clay than is generally met with in our soils. Such stones 

 as are met with appear to be fragments of felstone. The subsoil 



