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10. Granite; at the amethyst locality, Mount Hope Bay, 
Bristol. 
11. Gray Wacke ie forming a ridge on Popasquash 
Island, W. of Bristol. 
12. Gray Wacke, forming the shore near Patuxet Vil- 
“13. Gray Wacke, containing (Chlorophane) fluor spar, 
Providence. This rock, of a peculiar structure is frequent 
in this vicinity, and in Seekonk, Johnson, and Cumberland, 
where it is frequently traversed by veins of quartz, con- 
_ taining fluor spar; it sometimes contains small masses 0 
various simple and compound minerals. It emits an argil- 
laceous odour when moistened. 
14. Gray Wacke slate, Johnson, 3 miles from Provi- 
e. Some of the —— Wacke of this vicinity, about 
3 miles below Providence, has straight seams, which in 
ing, give one good face to the stone. Those build- 
ings, erected from this stone in the town, precisely resem- 
ble in color &c. those built of greenstone in New-Haven, 
and ata little distance, and without examination ot 
easily be mistaken for the same. 
15. Limestone, from a ae formerly quarried. Johnson, 
31 miles from Providen 
16. and 17. Gedsinks a four to six miles from 
Providence, lately quarried to a considerable extent, and 
adding beauty and durability to the new buildings in Prov- 
idence. 
18. Cusine; Scituate, about 17 miles from Providence, 
extensively quarried, specimens of which may be seen in 
most of the new buildings, and in flag stones in Providence, 
which perhaps may boast of having the handsomest side- 
walks of any town in the U. States—laid with gneiss and 
a from Nira 
Serpentine, in a granitic hill, five miles from Provi- 
eaide, on the left of the Smithfield turnpike, on ‘ Jenke’s 
Hill,’ Smithfield. 
20, 21, 22, and 23. Varieties of the limestone, at the 
Harris lime sen Smithfield, about eight miles W.of N. from 
What is. called “the Harris Time Rock, . 
forms three hills, about 200 yards from each other, situa- 
ted in a kind of basin, surrounded by hills. The southern, 
or first has not yet been quarried. At the base of this, is- 
