216 Sty Geology, Mineralogy, Scenery, ¥c. 
ingly rough, steep and difficult, and rarely travelled sore d 
vehicles except carts. 
Induced however by a wish t to cross the ridges I isle 
red the latter road. Its difficulties were even ‘greater than 
had been‘ naam ‘owing I suppose to recent rains 
which had swept away the loose earth from the wane nee 
stones, and worn deep gullies. 
I was however gratified to find that my previous siepedier 
sions were correct, and that the ranges by the side of which 
t a travelled, and of which these were only. a con- 
tinuation, were universally gneiss. | E 
Tron ore bed of Kent. 
Arrived at the iron mine the observer is tne veiek 
with the magnitude of the excavation. This ore bed, like 
that at Salisbury, is situated in the side of the hill, ri this is 
ahigh and | steep one, and the ore is explored | under the 0 open 
sky aces where £4. 
leries of some extent have been carried i into the hill. Like the 
, which in most places 
is the substance with which the iron is in immediate contact. 
nlike the excavations at Salisbury, which are numerous but 
of small magnitude, this is nearly all in one great basin 
ndseve 
eee: feet wide. The magnitude of the excavation has 
been ——- increased, va an aes ey contrivance of the 
r. Adam. He hasturn- 
ed a a stream of water coming from ihe more aan ste’ 
manner a se amount ‘of labour and = in getting ed 
As regards the geological position of this ore it is a little 
different from that-of Salisbury ; the latter, it willbe Te- 
membered, is in ‘mica-slate, ‘Sliesia that of Kent«i is im 
gneiss. The section ef the hil] which has been made by t 
