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by it, while those on either side are in perpen- 

 dicular or contrary directions. 



8. A specimen, about two inches and a half 

 by two, containing about thirty small pebbles, 

 of the most beautiful tints of red, black, brown, 

 white, and cream colour, mottled and zoned in 

 every conceivable form, in a granular transpa- 

 rent cement, which however inclining to pale 

 red, affords not the strong contrast which a fawn- 

 colour would have produced. 



9. A piece, about four inches by three, pre- 

 senting on a fawn-colour ground only ten or 

 twelve pebbles, of the middle size; one of the 

 purest uniform carnelian, with the usual black 

 zone, and another of a fine purple red, or wine 

 colour; while the others, chiefly red, are va- 

 riously agatised and mottled. A singular acci- 

 dent in this beautiful specimen is, that a large 

 red nodule is split in various directions, yet the 

 fragments perfectly preserve their position, the 

 chief rents being accurately filled by the fawn- 

 coloured cement 



10. Amass, about eight inches in diameter. 

 In the heart of a yellowish brown pebble, with 

 a broad black border, and about three-fourths of 

 an inch in diameter, is the fair impression of a 

 little chamite, about a quarter of an inch in 

 meter, 



