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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



3. The firft example I ever faw of granite that 

 flratified, and jet had no charader of gneifs 



1 



Chorley Foreft, in Leicefterfli 

 greater part of that foreft has fir its bafe a horn^ 

 flone fchiflas, primary and vertical; and, on its 

 eaflern border, particularly near Mount Sorrel 

 are beds of granite, holding the fame direaion 



with thofe of the fchift 



Theft 



t> 



nite ; it has nothing in its internal ftrudure of a 

 fchiftofe or fiflile appearance ; and its beds, which 

 it is material to remark, are no thicker than thofe 

 of the hornftone ftrata in the neighbourhood. 

 This granite is remarkable too. for being clofe 



; I did not fee 

 traced them within a fmall 



th 



remarkable too, 

 fecondary fandftone ftrata 



taa. b 



diftance of one anoth 



likely that 



fo that I think 



ny body of 



intervenes. At 



he fame time that I ftate my belief of this rock 

 f granite being in regular ftrata, I muft acknow- 



mineralogift, who 

 I time, and whofe 



ledge, that a very intelligent 

 viev/ed thefe rocks at the fam 



eye was well pradifed in geological obfervation, 

 remained in d jiibt concerning them. 



294. Another inftance of a real granite, difpo- 

 fed in regular beds, but without any charader of 



gneifs 



hich I fa 



in Berwickfli 



4 



Lammermuir, near the village of Pricftla 

 fittle river of Faflliet cuts the beds 



ac 



The 



rofs, 



and 



