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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



335 



ralogift, that Goatfield confiits of ft ratified gra- 



The impreffion which the appear- 



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ance of that mountain made on my mind, is jufl: 



the reverfe 



and though 



I faw large tabu- 



lar mafles, fometimes nearly vertical, feparated 

 by fiffures, they appeared to be much too irre- 



gular, too little extended in length and height, 



and vaftly too much in thicknefs, to be reckon- 



ed the effeds of flratifi 



For all this. I 



uld by no means be underftood to fet my ob 



fer^ 

 fon 



I 



in oppofition to thofe of Mr Jamie- 

 my vilit to Arran, I did not dired my 



inquiries much toward thig point ; the general 

 appearance of the rocks did not fuggeft the ne- 

 ceffity of doing fo, and I was not perfedly aware 

 how much the ftratification of granite had been 



infilled on b 



fom 



mineralosrift 



fo that I 



pplied myfelf entirely to lludy fome other of 



the i 

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fting phe 



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na which this little 

 abundance. I there- 



fore carry my confidence in the appearan- 

 ces which feemed to indicate a want of ftra- 

 tification in the granite of x\.rran no further 

 than to remain fceptical both as to Mr Jamie- 

 fon's conclulions and my own, till an oppor- 

 tunity 



* Mineralogy of the Scottifh Ifles, vol. i. p. 35, 36, 



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