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tion Dauteede limestone, as at 
Boué’s Geological and Miscellaneous Observations. 25 
every thing. Without a single letter, I found myself ina 
wretched solitary inn on the limits of Wallachia, in the midst 
ofa woody country. Happily I found the means to escape 
from that place ; the roads were covered with soldiers, as 
great ait of robbers infested the immense forests. 
ork on Transylvania you will see and learn what 
a country ri is, once over the Transylvanian hills you are 
no longer in Europe, and I suppose that the impenetrable 
woods of some parts of the country, must resemble those of 
America, where the bears and the snakes arte he only in- 
habitants. At Vienna, which I at lengta reached, I was 
detained by a nervous fever that continued forty days. 
This year I have revisited Italy and the south part of the 
Alps. where all Ye secondary formetions exist, and oftea in 
a coer! hill. You see there old schistose crystalline Bem, 
ston ith ting grauwacké, clay sisie and trans 
red conglomerate, next a mar limestone formation or 
zechstein, then marls and sand stone (variegated) with gyp- 
sum, roggensteM, shelly calcareous sandstone, which is red 
marl n German 
marl as ny. Above the red marl is a greyish 
hansiins ornate muschelkalk, then a reddish sandstone 
formation on quadersandstein, then juratic vere do- 
Jomite in strata, with shells, notwithstanding what V« on Buch 
says. ‘To these succeed oolite and compact jura limestone, 
lied to the genus Ibis. theo 
Above the chalk is coarse tertiary limestone with fossil, 
short beds of blue clay with shells. To these probably be 
longs the blue shelly clay of the ee we hills. The 
upper part of the coarse limestone contains bituminous beds 
with fishes. e 
The Appenines seem to be compe of. idee sition 
rocks, grauwacké and limestone, red marl, like that the 
Carpathians, and muschelkalk? of j Saratic : dolomite, om- 
pact limestone, green sand, coral limestone, hard ohaiks and 
*In the original this wordt et > obscure that I have *een unable to decy- 
pher it satisfactorily.—J. W. 
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