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whofe made with the morning and evening-fun upon the waters, 

 afford a very beautiful landfcape. The fertility of the foil 

 muft be attributed to the deciduous leaves of the trees, and to 

 the falts in the ilony, arenaceous, and virgin-earths. I was 

 about two winters, and as many fummers, in feafonable weather, 

 in the midft of very ill health, in digging this hill, and bringing 

 it into the form defcribed ; and did not at firft expeft to meet with 

 fuch irrefragable teftimonies of a deluge, and leaft of all, this 

 valuable fand. The cryftalline rag ilone of our mountains, 

 heaths, and lakes, feem to be an aggregate of it. 



On the more of Haly pike-lake, is a large area of rag-fand, the 

 .-granules or pebbles fmall, no bigger than coarfe Smiris, white, 

 tranfparent, moftly angular, except fome few that may be 

 blunted by attrition, and the agitation of the waters. In the 

 lake, and on the heath round it, is an abundance of rag-Hone, 

 compofed of the like cryftalline fand or pebbles, glittering and 

 fhining, which are feparated by being expofed to fevere tempefts, 

 and by collifion in the tumultuous billows of the lake. I have 

 tried it in polifhing marble, for which it is excellent, giving 

 them a furface expeditioufly. Farmers ufe it in giving an edge 

 to their fcithes. 



There is a fand upon the more of G>?M/-iiland more bright and 

 glittering than this, like fuch as is found about the SaV/y-iflands ; 

 being filvery, micaceous fpangles of Talc^ warned by the 

 tides off large ftrata of talcy ftone, very plentiful upon the 

 more between Wc.rkworth and Aln-mouth, not always vifible for 

 heaps of fand, but often in view after high tides and ftorms. 



Sea-fand, in many other countries, is greatly valued for mel- 

 lowing ftiff clay-ground, but in our's it is rarely minded, though 

 the fea-coaft is generally a clay from Tyne-mouth to Berwick. Pro- 

 vidence 



