Bay St. Paul. 2iy 



mer, a pale lime-flone, purple or garnet- 

 coloured grains of quartz, and fome tran- 

 fparent quartz. Sometimes the reddifh vi- 

 trefcent ipar is the moil: abundant, and lies 

 in long ftripes of fmall hard grains. Some- 

 times the fine bbick glimmer abounds more 

 than the remaining conflituent parts; and 

 thefc two lad kinds of ftone generally run 

 in alternate ftripes. The white lime-ftone 

 which confifts of almoft invifible particles, 

 is mixed in among them. The garnet- 

 coloured quartz grains appear here and 

 there, and fometimes form whole ilrlpes. 

 They are as big as pin's heads, round, 

 ihining, and flrike fire with fleel. All 

 thefe ifones are very hard, and the moun- 

 tains near the fea, confift entirely of them. 

 They fometimes ly in almoft perpendicu- 

 lar flrata, of ten or fifteen inches thick- 

 nefs. The firata, however, point with 

 their upper ends to the north-weft, and go 

 upwards from the river, as if the water, 

 which is clofe to the fouth-eafh fide of 

 the mountains, had forced the ftrata to 

 lean on that fide. Thefe mountains con- 

 tain very narrov/ veins of a white, and 

 fometimes of a greenifh, fine, femidiapha- 

 nous, foft fpar, which crumbles eafily into 

 grains. In this fpar th' y very frequently 

 find fpecks, which look like a calamine 



blend. 



