6 BALL: CHOPE COAL-FIELD.: 
These rocks consist chiefly of greenish sandstones and the boulder 
bed—the shales being imperfectly developed. 
METAMORPHIC Rocks. 
The metamorphic rocks in the vicinity of the above-described field 
consist, for the most part, of granitic and hornblendic gneiss with 
occasional rich lodes and interstratifications of magnetic iron ore. 
HazíníBÁGn, 
November 1870. 
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