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tact. This mass is plainly an outlier of a larger body of sim- 
. ie 
= it and the syenite are much altered, being cut by joints, 
nd having lost their slaty cleavage. They are also impreg- 
hated with siliceous and ferruginous matters, causing them to 
— a red color on weathering. Their edges, viewed across 
€ chasm cut by the stream, show this change very strikingly. 
ey are seen to arch over the east slope of the crystalline 
West bas 
hain from the west, we see that its entire face, for more 
