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adhering plates confusedly united, as if they had been crushed, or at 

 least suffered some violent pressure. The ordinary type is seen to pass 

 into a veined one, the veins being quartz, and this gradually into a quartz 

 rock of a dark colour, highly charged with the indurated clay of the slate, 

 and still intersected, as that was, by veins of pure quartz. The laminae 

 of the most perfect slaty varieties are very often bent ; small patches of 

 limestone, evidently the traces of included beds, occur along the whole 

 line. 



177. At Kulsee, the rock is still argillaceous schist of a very perfect 

 type, dipping E. of N., that is, at the bungalow belonging to Major 

 Young on the hill ; but in the descent to, and in the town, the rock 

 in situ is concealed, and it is not till after having passed it a mile or so, 

 that a new formation (sandstone) is observed to be established. The 

 strata dip S., and a little further on, are vertical. From this position 

 they gradually passes to a dip E. of N., but possess still a high inclinati- 

 on. The character of the rock is perfect, and leaves no doubt that the 

 argillaceous schist has here terminated, and is succeeded by a totally 

 different formation. I shall therefore defer my details of the new rock 

 till I follow out all the details of the former one, and trace it in a simi- 

 lar manner to its boundary in every other quarter in which it has been 

 examined. 



178. I shall take up my description at the point below the village of 

 Kande in the Burral district, where the last patch of gneiss was found, 

 (Art. 139). It was noticed that the ridges above appeared, by their out- 

 line and arrangement, to be limestone ; a few traces may also be seen in the 

 bed of the stream, and fragments of the local conglomerate which always 

 accompanies limestone. The rock then becomes a talco-argillaceous 

 schist, being frequently distinguished for its beautiful pearly lustre and 

 pleasing colours. This type is further remarkable for its smooth gently 

 curved laminae, and the minute undulations or furrows of their surface. 

 These latter I have almost invariably observed in slate that contains 

 a sensible proportion of magnesia. Besides this well marked variety, 

 there occurs another of an earthy character, which gradually passes 

 into hornblendic schist. 



180. The dip of the strata in this glen, (Burral,) was uniformly W. 

 and N. W., and therefore not conformably to what I suppose the general 

 dip of the formations throughout these mountains. Nor is it an 



