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lours of these fragments belong to those which 

 are known to be the result of calcination, more 

 or less acting on earths and argillaceous or 

 schistose rocks, especially of a ferruginous na- 

 ture. This dry and disordered surface presents, 

 particularly towards the eastern side, against 

 which the smoke is oftenest driven, the most un- 

 equivocal characters of the completest sterility, 

 no kind of plant being to be found there, not 

 the least verdure. 



ce Covered twelve years ago, as well as all the Desolate, 

 neighbouring quarter, with magnificent chesnut 

 walks of the first quality, a second resource for 

 the country after coal, there remains no longer 

 any trace of these trees, except on the lower 

 borders of the mountain, even in the part which 

 is inflamed ; where is perceived, nearly opposite 

 Capelle's house, a single stump, still adhering to 

 a portion of the trunk above ground. This stump 

 and the trunk, hollowed and mined by the sub- 

 terranean heat, are, actually, only a mishapen 

 Haass, which, seen from the house, is distin- 

 guished by its coal-black colour, and the smoke 

 which issues from it, as from a vent spouting 

 from the earth. 



** From all points of the surface of this moun- Smoke, 

 tain, even from those where neither crevice nor 

 dislocation is perceived, through ashes, earths, 



