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pendicukr here, and the flates of which 

 they coniift are black, with a brown caft^ 

 and divifible into thin fliivers, no thicker 

 than the back of a knife. Thefe flates 

 moulder as foon as they are expofed to the 

 open air, and the fliore is covered with 

 grains of fmall fand, which are nothing but 

 particles of fuch mouldered flates. Some 

 of the fl:rata run hori2ontal, others ob- 

 liquely, dipping to the fouth and rifing to 

 the north, and fometimes the contrary way. 

 Sometimes they form bendings like large 

 femicircles : fometimes a perpendicular line 

 cuts off the flrata, to the depth of two feet s 

 and the flates on both fides of the line from 

 a perpendicular and fmooth wall. In fome 

 places hereabouts, they find amongft the 

 flates, a ftratum about four inches thick 

 of a grey, compad:, but pretty foft lime- 

 Hone, of which the Indiatis for many 

 centuries have made, and the French at pre^ 

 fent fiill make, tobacco-pipes*. 



Aiigiifi the 5th. This morning, we con^ 

 tinued our journey by rowing, the contrary 

 wind hindering us from failing. The ap^ 



pearance 



* This Hme-ltcne, feems to be a marie, or rather a kind 

 of flone-marle: for there is a whitifn kind of it in the 

 Kri?n-Turtary, and near Stiva or Thebes, in Greece, which 

 is employed by the Turks and Tartars for making heads of 

 pipes, and that from the firft place is called Kefftkil, and in 

 the latter, Sea- Scum: it may be very eafily cut, but gfows 

 harder in time. F. 



