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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



39S> 



red 



fiderable abundance over a particu 



lar 



are 



ly to b 



ferred to th 



fe 



But the moil remarkable examples of 



th 



fort are the flo 



found at th 



C 



f 



Good Hope, on the hill called Paarlberg, which 

 takes its name from a chain of large round flones, 



p 



like the pearls of a necklace, that pafles over the; 

 fummit. Two of thefe, placed near the highell 



N 



point, are 



ailed th 



P 



d th 



Diamond 



and were mentioned feveral years ago in the Phi- 

 lofophical Tranfadions *. From a more recent 

 account, thefe Hones appear to be a fpecies of 

 granite, though the hill on which they lie is 

 compofed of fandftone ftrata f . The Pearl is a 

 naked rock, that rifes to the height of 400 feet 

 above the fummit of the hill ; the Diamond is 

 higher, but its bafe is lefs, and it is more inac- 

 ceiTible. 



\ 



Fro 



the 



a 



bove flones forming a reg 



chain, as well as from the immenfe fize of the 



largeft 



1 



have been moved 



bable, that they are parts 



which runs acre 



mpoffible to fuppofe that they 

 : and it is infinitely more pro- 



f a 



g 



fs the fandftone ft 



vem, 

 nd of 



I 



which fome parts have refifted the adion of the 



ather, while the reft have yielded 



The 



whole 



* Vol. Ixviii p. 102. 



\ Barrow's Travels into Southern Africa, p. 60. 



