WB ICCOUNT m a JOURNEY to gcHi Souacas of thse 



coarfe fand ©r gril with abundance of aliard black fub (lance, probably 

 fcornblende. The mafs is of various, but generallj great hardnefe, 

 and I believe, it is a fpecies of true * gxanitCc 



The other ne^rt abundant, was that white laminat-cd rock, from which 

 ihG hot- water trickles, and which has been called quartz; 

 k is met with of yellow, red and greenifh tinges, but always 

 i,n lamina, S-k/fiu£. or fi^te, of every fort, .micaceous, and coloiurtd 

 of every tint, and of all degrees of hardnefs; grey, red, whiteifli 

 and blueiQi, is alfo abundant, and always plentifully veined with 

 quarlZo This done., is by far the mofl; commoe and plenti- 

 ful! all over ihefe hills. There was no iime-flone, evident, unlels 

 fome fpecimens of the white laminated rock refembling mar- 

 ble, be of a calcareous nature, which is not improbable ; but I hac}. not 

 ^n acid of any fort as a teft, and have to regret my incompetency to 

 ;^eak wilh any degree of pofitive certainty on mineralogical fubjeds. 



During the courf^ of our tour, it was peculiarly obfervable, that the 

 rocky and more abrupt faces of the loftieft hills,, in the whole extent 

 £rom the plains to the fnowy range, pointed in a north wederly direc- 

 tion, but varying very much, according to fituation and circumftances t 

 and that the oppofite faces, though always rough and unequal, were 

 more doping and lefs precipitous: tnis difpofition was more confpicu- 

 cus anddi HinSk;, the farther we entered the hills and th^ nearer we 

 BppiQached the high rocky peaks of the fnowy range. 



It was alfo obvious that the ftru6lure of theie rocks was flratified-; 

 fometimes con filling of different kinds of ftone, at others apparently 

 Gf the fame fort exhibiting merely this tendency in the formation and 



fraSurc. Thefe l!ra,ta were always at an ang;Ie v^^ith the horizon ; dif- 



f I il^iiik that fome fart of this lock was belie!'e(iio fee Skniie. 



