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THE GEOLOGICAL STRTTCTTJEE OP SOUTH CORNWALL. 



and to have adopted — in spite of the evidence of the strata in 

 scores of exposures, the old and now exploded dogma that the 

 stratified rocks bend around the respective granite masses in 

 " great curves." * 



Eio Tinto, October, 1883. 



* In two instances (pp. 270-271, Mr. S. proposes lines of section running 

 for miles along the strike of the rocks, and in one of these he actually estimates 

 the thickness of the series from such a section. 



