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GRANITE. 



IN conformity to the general practice of geo- 

 .logists, I have placed granite as the lowest, or 

 first in order, of the primary rocks. For the 

 same reason, confirmed by my own limited ex- 

 perience, I have also considered it as unstratified. 

 Further than this 1 cannot enter on its geological 

 relations ; as they would be incompatible with 

 the design of the present work. It is only ne- 

 cessary to remark, that every member of the pri- 

 mary strata has been found in contact with it ; 

 and that, in some rare instances, the lowest red 

 sandstone has been observed in the same situation. 



By the term granite is here understood every 

 compound rock which is found in irregular 

 masses beneath the lowest strata; including, 

 further, those veins which proceed from them so 

 as to traverse the adjoining rocks, together with 

 those similar veins which, though of the same 



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