VII. An Account of the Mineralogy of the Faroe Islands. 

 By Thomas Allan, Esq. F. R. S. Edin. 



[Read 1st February 1813.] 



SIR George Mackenzie having already given a paper, en- 

 titled, " An Account of some Geological Facts observed 

 " in the Faroe Islands," it may be necessary to explain why our 

 communications were not combined in one. This was simply 

 owing to our objects being in some measure dissimilar. He was 

 anxious to compare the facts presented in a country decidedly 

 volcanic, with those in a trap district, where no traces of a vol- 

 cano were to be discovered ; consequently, his observations were 

 confined to particular facts : whereas my object is to describe, 

 without relation to theory, whatever appeared to me interest- 

 ing in a geological point of view. 



I do not propose to embarrass myself with an attempt to re- 

 duce the various phenomena I remarked, to any existing theo- 

 ry, farther than what appears warranted by the new and addi- 

 tional light we derived from some of the appearances in Fa- 

 roe. I shall content myself with aiding the labours of future 



travellers, 



