KOMI VIXI. KOLLANITE. Hi 



from whence they have been detached by the 

 waters, and afterwards agglutinated by a quartzy 

 fluid. 



" The concentric layers which are observed in 

 their interior, seem to demonstrate that it is not 

 to friction and rolling that they are indebted for 

 their round appearance. It even appears that 

 their primitive form has been no ways altered; 

 for the interior layers are not only parallel 

 among themselves, but even always parallel to 

 the surface of the stone, whatever may be its 

 shape. It is not uncommon to observe some 

 which are triangular, of which the interior layers 

 present several triangles, one within the other, 

 and always parallel to the surface of the stone. 

 The most common colour of these layers, is 

 yellow, red, white, and bluish ; this latter tint 

 is generally that of the surface of these little 

 pebbles. 



" There is a circumstance which seems to 

 prove that these stones have not been tossed 

 about by the waters for any long time; it is, 

 that they are almost always observed mingled 

 with fragments of flint, all the angles of which 

 are sharp. 



" With this pudding-stone are made boxes, 

 trinkets, and beautiful little slabs, which by the 



