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in which the central nucleus of confused quartz has made vigorous, 

 repeated, and, as far as I know quartz, I may even say super-quartz- 

 ine efforts to gather itself into a single crystal, dragging the circum- 

 fluent agatescent lines one after another violently aside, to expire in 

 the planes of its successive pyramids. 



Fig. 4. 



In all these instances the crystalline action is unmistakable, being 

 at relative angles, of which only agatescent warping deranges the 

 magnitude, but here (Fig. 5) is an example in which we have an 



Fig. 5. 



apparently pendant stalactite (which is, however, the section of a 



