228 sHiscellaneous Notices in Mineralogy, Geology, &c. 
formation,) continues to exhibit the same appearance for a 
day’s ride toward the mountains, then becomes undulating; 
and the hills gradually merease in ent and a till 
they rise into mountains near t e ridge. ocks 
at the falls, at Columbia, are granite—next to aoe in one 
spot, I noticed on the east side of Broad river, at about 
eight miles susie from Columbia, green-stone; on the 
other side of the same stream none of this latter rock met 
my observation on the route westerly, to Pendleton Dis- 
trict, but instead of it, sand-stone, stratified : and. partially 
rated granitic and shistose rocks. The surface of 
the earth was covered very extensively, in every part of my 
ride, with loose irregular fragments of quartz, varying in size 
from an inch or two to two feet in diamater. I saw no 
masses of quartz in place—but no particular examination 
wasmade. The appearance of the country is precisely the 
same with that of Virginia where the sabi oe found ; 
[See Vol. Hf. p. 143 of this Journal.]—and here too, the 
same mineral was met with. Crystals of quartz, deny of 
them handsome, wi choceallesiea | the road in different pla- 
ces. “The celebrated Table Mountain lay near my route 
and was visited; that great mass of granite, eight hundred 
and twenty-two feetin height, and almost absolutely perpen- 
dicular, extending near a ‘mile with the same smooth and 
even front, but so covered that no termination is to be seen 
from the station of the spectator, — strong wn 8 
sions of grandeur. 
new road is now rove across the Saluda mountain, 
Siitetess Shei ugh granite, some of it it very fine and hand- 
some, much like the Chelmsford Granite, used in Boston. 
one spot a vein of gneiss lies in the granite, in the side of 
the mountain—but aps vein is not the word er to 
express the truth in this case, block might be better. At 
about fifteen or twenty miles from the mountains on my re- 
turn to Columbia, green-stone began to appear, crossing my _ 
ee . P ‘ith . , 4 ee 
" lave ot sonarnle's re i ie in my way, eh of 
course: were not neglected. A very few small specimens 
