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.DOMAIN ix. ANOMALOUS, 



Patrin's 

 remarks. 



Blagodat. 



sity and wonder ; though it is not the only exam- 

 ple of the kind that nature offers to us."* 



Patrin has observed on this description, that 

 Taberg, far from being an irregular mass of ore, 

 is on the contrary a mountain of a most regular 

 structure ; the arrects, or uprightsf, having their 

 planes parallel to its great axis, as is generally 

 observed in primitive mountains. 



The same able observer, who passed many 

 years in Siberia, thus proceeds : 



c< The mines of iron in veins, which I observed 

 in Siberia, in the Ural mountains, have a singular 

 resemblance to those of Sweden. 



" The two principal ones are those of Blago- 

 dat and of Keskanar,both upon the eastern side of 

 the Uralian chain ; the first thirty, and the other 

 fifty, leagues to the north of Ekaterinburg. 



" Blagodat, like Taberg, is a mountain about 

 400 feet in height, in which the upright veins 

 run from north to south, as the chain itself. 



" The summit is almost entirely composed of 

 ore, for an extent of 200 fathoms in length and 



* Ib. 57. 



f These terms are hazarded, as already stated, to supply a defect 

 in mineralogical language, lamented by Saussure and many other 

 writers ; the expressions of vertical leds, or vertical layers, being 

 highly objectionable. 



