16 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



principles endeavour to account for the various changes 

 this globe has undergone. 



In a drain, which runs from one of thefe quarries, a 

 body of red .and yellow veined marble has been cut 

 through, which promifes to polifh well, and will pro- 

 bably prove an acquifition. Quarries of a blackifli and 

 very clofe grained ftone are opened, in feveral places, 

 in contact with the limeftone j they are very hard, 

 and ftand the hammer remarkably well. 



Granite is to be met with in detached mafles, and of 

 various colours and fmenefs, in many parts of this 

 county, but, as a great body, it is confined to the 

 barony of Mourne, the lordfnip of Newry, part of 

 Upper Iveagh, and a very fmall portion of the barony 

 of KinaUrty. As the granite country is approached 

 from the different points of the compafs, a few ftones 

 of this fpecies are perceived in the fields and ditches ; 

 by degrees thefe grow more frequent, and the com- 

 mon flaty ftone of the adjacent county decreafes, until 

 at length they are nearly loft, and almoft every {lone 

 on the furface is granite, and every rock is of the fame. 

 The granite country begins on the eaftern coafl, about 

 a mile beyond the village of Dundrum ; from thence it 

 continues in an oblique line north-weft to the moun- 

 tain of Slieve Croob, where in the eaftern branch of 

 die rirer Lagan it is intermixed with the flaty rock, 

 and alfo with a beautiful and fine grained reddifli grit, 

 that gives a very fmooth furface, when applied to a 



grinding 



