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T. Sterry Hunt on Granitic Rocks. 125 
was led to look upon them as eruptive ; and generalizing from 
this, he declared that all the crystalline limestones of northern 
New York were non-stratified rocks of eruptive origin (Geol. 
of the First District of New York, 1842, pages 87-59). This 
view of Emmons was to a certain extent a 
gneiss in the mountains of the Vosges (Bull. Soc. Geol. de Fr., 
iti, 215-235). In support of this view could be urged the dyke- 
like form of the calcareous veinstones, which other observers, 
Naturalist, II, iii, 128), and subsequently more at length in the 
—. so often referred to (Report Geol. Survey of Canada, 1863— 
> p 182). It ; 
careous veinstones are nearly free from foreign minerals, and 
Bergstrasse, which Bischof t 
These endogenous concretionary limestones are 1m fact to the 
stratified limestones, what endogenous granitic veins are to 
gneiss roc 
