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formation,) continues to exhibit the same appearance for a 

 day's ride toward the mountains, then becomes undulating; 

 and the hills gradually increase in height, and steepness, til! 

 they rise into mountains near the Blue ridge. The rocks 

 at the falls, at Columbia, are granite — next to these in one 

 spot, I noticed on the east side of Broad river, at about 

 eight miles distance from Columbia, green-stone; on the 

 other side of the same stream none of this latter rock met 

 my observation on the route westerly, to Pendleton Dis- 

 trict, but instead of it, sand-stone, stratified : and partially 

 disintegrated granitic and shistose rocks. The surface of 

 the earth was covered very extensively, in every part of my 

 ride, with loose irregular fragments of quartz, varying in size 

 from an inch or two to two feet in diamater. I saw no 

 masses of quartz in place — but no particular examination 

 was made. The appearance of the country is precisely the 

 same with that of Virginia where the titanium was found ; 

 [See Vol. II. p. 143 of this Journal.] — and here too, the 

 same mineral was met with. Crystals of quartz, many of 

 them handsome, were collected in the road in different pla- 

 ces. The celebrated Table Mountain lay near my route, 

 and was visited ; that great mass of granite, eight hundred 

 and twenty-two feet in height, and almost absolutely perpen- 

 dicular, extending near a mile with the same smooth and 

 even front, but so covered that no termination is to be seen 

 from the station of the spectator, produces strong impres- 

 sions of grandeur. 



A new road is now cutting across the Saluda mountain, 

 and passes through granite, some of it very fine and hand- 

 some, much like the Chelmsford Granite, used in Boston. 

 In one spot a vein of gneiss lies in the granite, in the side of 

 the mountain — but perhaps vein is not the word proper to 

 express the truth in this case, block might be better. At 

 about fifteen or twenty miles from the mountains on my re- 

 turn to Columbia, green-stone began to appear, crossing my 

 path, and alternating with granite : it continued for thirty 

 miles or more to meet me, passing to the South. Some of 

 the specimens were very fine grained and handsome, others 

 of coarser texture, exhibiting much the same variety as the 

 New-Haven mountains. I had very little opportunity to 

 search for particular minerals ; a few fell in my way, and of 

 course were not aeglected. A very iew small specimens 



