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DOMAIN II. 



It also appears in masses on the road to Quarn- 

 don. 



It is also found in Greece, Norway, Saxony, 

 the Hartz, Suabia, Stiria, Scotland, and many 

 other countries. 



Aspect 2. Felspar, quartz, and mica. Red 

 granite of Egypt, without siderite, which, as Wad 

 justly observes, constituting all the obelisks, is the 

 real Syenites of Pliny. The mica is sometimes 

 greenish black, sometimes tombac brown, some- 

 times grey, sometimes black. 



The same, variegated with grey felspar. 



Grey granite, psaromon, of the same compo- 

 sition, from the same country. 



Green granite. Of this I have only seen one 

 specimen, found by Roziere in the ruins of Om- 

 bos, in Upper Egypt. It is the most beautiful of 

 all the granites, the felspar being of the finest 

 emerald green, the mica silvery, and the quartz 

 transparent white*. 



Blue granite, of white quartz, silvery mica, and 

 felsite of a sky blue, from Krieglach, in Stiria. 

 This granite, which is found in large masses in the 

 highway, only yields in beauty to the green of 



* Besson, in his memoir on the granitel of Corsica ( J. de PA.) 

 mentions a granite of greyish quartz, and beautiful semi-transparent 

 green felspar. 



