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ments into which it breaks are covered with dendritical delineations 

 of manganese. The same kind of granite also occurs in a quarry by 

 the side of the road near Little Malvern. 



§ 35. Between the Wych and that part of the hill where the road 

 from Worcester to Ledbury crosses it, a distance of about three 

 miles, the rock is seldom seen above the surface of the ground on 

 either side. I examined most of the places where it does appear, but 

 did not find any thing different from what I had met with in the 

 northern part of the range. 



§ SQ. The road now mentioned, rises along the side of the valley 

 above Little Malvern, and winds round the northern face of the 

 Herefordshire beacon. In making it, the rock has been cut down 

 considerably on one side, I found a greater uniformity in the 

 rocks of this part of the range, than in those which compose the 

 northern half ; there is less granite, and hornblende also occurs more 

 rarely. The most prevalent rock is one of a pale flesh colour, of a 

 fine grain, and chiefly composed of compact felspar : it is very full of 

 fissures, so that it easily breaks into small irregular fragments, the 

 surfaces of which are covered with yellow oxide of iron, and on 

 some of these there are minute dendritical delineations of manganese. 

 They are also occasionally covered with small rhomboidal crystals of 

 spathose iron of a golden yellow colour, with a metallic lustre. 

 Calcareous spar, sometimes in distinct crystals, is likewise occasionally 

 met with in it. This rock forms the greater part of the hill to the 

 north of the road, as well as that part of the Herefordshire Beacon 

 through which the road has been cut: but what this last hill is chiefly 

 composed of, I am unable to say, as it is nearly covered with vegeta- 

 tion on all sides. 



§ 37. A short way to the south of the Herefordshire Beacon, there 

 is a mass projecting above the surface, which consists of a fine grained 



