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hardly perceives from one extremity to another the smallest modifi- 

 cation arise, be it in the proportion of the mineralogical elements or in 

 the size of the crystals. One would say, that the whole mountain is 

 formed of a great number of immense polyhedric masses morticed one 

 to another, some species more, others less frequently, recurring. 



" I have not seen Basanite (Brongniart, Classification of Rocks) in the 

 place nor spread on the declivity of the mountain, but several mutilated 

 idols are sculptured of this rock, and I have good reason to believe that 

 they did not go far to seek it." (This is the greenstone teliya alluded to 

 by me in para. 9.) " The thickness of the sandstones which cover up this 

 system, seems to me the same as, or slightly greater than at Adjighar. 

 These sandstones are identical in their composition, in their appear- 

 ance, and the peculiarities of their bearing with those of Adjighar. 

 They form like them immense compact masses, which divide, only 

 according to lines almost straight or horizontal, into so small steatite 

 or clayey beds that they are easily missed in the sections of the ground. 

 With these compact shelves are intercalated beds with a cleavage 

 parallel or oblique to their lie. These differences in the mode of the 

 interior division of each bed are isolated from all the others. Towards 

 the middle part and the summit, the predominating variety has a very 

 fine grain (exclusively ?) quartz. Its colour is of a greenish grey, its 

 hardness extreme. One may call it granular quartz. Lower, with the 

 same structure and the same hardness it becomes reddish and very 

 sensibly micaceous. It is sprinkled with tolerably large reddish spots 

 of a deeper colour, which lose themselves in the interior of the rock, and 

 seem formed by slight accumulations of red clay, and spotted with little 

 round stains, brown or ocherous, produced by cavities sometimes lined, 

 more commonly filled, with concretions of oxide of iron. Open and 

 exposed to the air, these cavities soon empty themselves of the sub- 

 stance they contain, and thus give to all the old surface the appearance 

 of being pierced with holes. The first variety of a dirty greenish yel- 

 low destitute of mica reappears above this, and covers again a bank of a 

 hardness, of an equal fineness, and of a brown colour, in which are dis- 

 persed some grains of a shining glassy quartz, and round fragments of 

 ochery clay. (Perhaps the round cavities are filled with this substance ?) 

 In this sandstone there extends in lines slightly marked a conglomerate,— 

 in which are embedded, in a ferruginous and micaceous or flinty cement, 



