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stone of Stony-way Quarry, where the direction of the strata is from 

 E. to W. exactly at right angles to that of the range : again, the 

 strata nearest the range are in general quite vertical, and even in 

 some places dip towards it, that is, eastward at an angle of ^0°; and 

 so far from the same stratified rock always occurring next the 

 imstratified, it is in some places sandstone ; in others, the argillaceous 

 rock ; and in others, limestone. 



The unstratified central rocks are so much concealed, that any 

 inferences with respect to them are liable to more uncertainty than 

 those we are enabled to draw from the frequent exposure of the stra- 

 tified rocks on the western side. - But wherever they can be seen to 

 any extent, they exhibit a great degree of irregularity, the different 

 kinds of rock being found in large masses confusedly heaped together. 

 The granite chiefly occurs in the lower part of the hill, and the veins 

 of it, which penetrate the other, rocks, become more slender as they 

 ascend, in all those places where they can be distinctly traced. 



Such remarkable variations in the direction and dip of the stratified 

 rocks, can only be accounted for, on the supposition of some violent 

 force, that has elevated them from the horizontal position in which 

 they must have been originally deposited, and thrown them into the 

 different situations in which they are now found ; and the Hutto- 

 nian Theory offers, in my opinion, a more satisfactory explanation of 

 these phenomena, than any other with which we are yet acquainted. 

 The situation of the granite, and the veins of it that penetrate the 

 other rocks, in almost every part of the range, perfectly accord with 

 the supposition of its being of later origin, and of its having been 

 thrown up from beneath them : it is also probable that the elevation 

 of the granite has produced the great disturbance in the strata, which 

 I have described. The direction of the force seems to have been 

 from West to East, and its action appears to have ceased where the 



