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bro are mixed with a talcous glimmer ; for the 

 greateft part it is fat to the touch, as that ef Im- 

 prunera ; but fome there is entirely dry, and clofely 

 ferruminated with flint ; hence extremely hard, and 

 exactly refembling a fea-green jafper. All thefe 

 hills are richly grown over with cheinut-trees, very 

 high and very agreeable. They terminate near 

 Nori, and from that place the country becomes 

 plainer. 



3. Near Ottacio^ and even to Alexandria^ the 

 country is covered with white hills, appearing on 

 the fides of different rivers in oblique flrata, pro- 

 bably produced by thefe rivers in former times, 

 and confiding of a fine hardened marl, mixed with 

 glimmer and fmall blunted pieces of Gabbro. 

 Thefe hills run far beyond Alexandria, though 

 they do not appear there remarkably elevated, but 

 form rather a plain well-cultivated country. Some 

 of them contained blunted detached limeftones, in 

 fo great a quantity, that they made them refemble 

 a fort of Breccia or Pudding-ftone. 



4. Somewhat further near Afti, in a valley, a 

 bed of black loam or common clay appeared, on 

 which fomewhat higher is fuperincumbent the be- 

 forementioned glimmery marl, in which here- 

 abouts frequently offered fragments of marine* 

 Ihcils, efpecially of a kind, which is called Solen. 

 This plain country, and thefe marl-hills, continue 



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