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tureless abide 
(7.) The a Wainainhias layer,” in its typical condition, unmis- 
takably occurs in cracks or fissures, both in Canadian and 
Connemara ophite 
(8.) The “nummuline layer” is paralleled by the fibrous coat 
vot is occasionally present on the surface of grains of chor 
drodite. 
ut 1 on irom 
another, to the exclusion of the *“intermediate skeleto on ae 
totally incompatible with the idea of the “nummuline layer” hav 
10.) The so-called “stolons,” and “ pass ages of communication % 
exactly sin, Sepa with those described in Cyeclocly ypeusy” 
have been shown to be tabular crystals and eatoualy formed : 
bodies, belon ak to different minerals, wedged cross-way8 % — 
obliquely i in the calcareous interspaces between the grains s and 
(11.) The « ‘canal system” is composed of serpentine, or er 
. : o traced 
e solvent. 
2; “canal system” in its remarkable branching gine 
is completely paralleled by crystalline e configurations i in the 
li len; an crevices of a ¢ 
of ge ashame in a calcitic matrix per Amity, New i. 
(13. 3.) T he configurations, presum — to so rn the “canal sy 
eis a pene 26 the argumen nt that as all pe foreeeig 
£ eoevonal features ” are occasionally found get in 1 ophite, 
