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the great body itfelf, which was obferved to 

 form with the veins one uninterrupted mafs, 

 inuil have flowed in a foft or liquid ftate into 

 its prefent poiition *." I have only further to 

 add, that fonie of thefe veins are remarkable 

 for containing granite, not fenlibly different, in 

 any refpe6t, from the mafs from which they 

 proceed. 



283. In InvernefsQiire, between Bernera and 

 Fort Auguflus, the fame phenomena occur 

 on the north lide of Loch Chloney, whiere fome 

 granite mountains rife from under the fchillus. 

 In travelling near this place. Lord Webb Sey-^ 

 mour and myfelf were advertifed of our ap- 

 proach to a jundion of granite and fchiftus, 

 by finding among the loofe Hones on the road 

 many pieces of fchiftus, interfedled with veins 

 of feltfpar and granite. We walked along this 

 jundion for more than a mile ; and toward 



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the eaft end, where the road leaves it, we faw, 

 in the bed of a llream that runs into Loch 

 Chloney, many beautiful fpecimens of granitic 

 veins pervading the fchiftus, and branching out 



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into very mmute ramihcations. 



284. The laft inftance I have to men- 

 tion from my own obfervation, is at St Mi- 

 chael's 



* Tranf. Royal Society Edin, voL iii. p. 8. 



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