DOMAIN XI. DECOMPOSED. 



cularly affected in decomposed granite ; t 

 which article the reader is referred. 



HYPONOME I. 



Felspar changed into kaolin. 



HYPONOME II. 



Into clay. 



NOME VII. D. GRANITE. 



The grandeur of this substance renders all its 

 appearances interesting. The decomposition of 

 granite may be considered on a large and on a 

 small scale; in the former point of view, the 

 subject has been well illustrated by Ramond, 

 Pyrenees, who has added a plate of its various appear* 

 ances*. As the felspar is generally by far the 

 most abundant substance, it might have been 

 expected that granite would split into rhombs ; 

 but the forms cannot be called regular, though 

 the sides, as Saussure has observed, are very 

 plane or flat, intersecting, as if cut, all the 

 component substances. According to Ramond, 



* Voyage au Mont Perdu, p. 20, &rc. It is to be regretted thai 

 a style ludicrously emphatic and important, should disfigure a work, 

 otherwise curious and interesting. 



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