J12 - MINERALS COLLECTED 



Sand-stone, with iron glance. 



Granite, red felspar, quartz, and a small quantity of mica. 

 Granite, red felspar, and hornblende, like mount Sorel. 

 Granular quartz and epidote. 

 ! Gneiss, passing into sand-stone. 

 Dolomite. 



From the bed of the river. 

 Heliotrope. 



Imperfect calcedonic agate. 

 Red jasper. 

 '••jO a green silicious indurated stone. 

 Onyx of calcedony and quartz. 

 Quartz, coloured by iron. 



These last specimens would seem to show that the Pesh, in its course, 

 crossed a trap country, and, though it rises in a granite country, and 

 chiefly passes through gneiss mountains, yet it may be presumed, (as I 

 observed in going to Sindivara, that the ascents and tops of the ghauts 

 were of trap,) that it also meets with partial formations or veins of trap 

 and basalt. 



Crossing the Pesh, three miles to the east, are two detached hills at 

 Pdrsunt, these are of a decaying rock, varying from granite to gneiss, 

 and to quartz, the latter, perhaps, the prevailing rock, at least on the 

 surface, and five or six miles further east are two other detached and 

 larger hills of much the same variety of composition, at the village of 

 Nima. On one of these was discovered the specimens of galena, which 

 were contained in quartz rock. Some specimens were very rich in ore, but 

 nothing like a vein of the lead could be traced, and what was met with was 

 contained in small quartz boulders, scattered on the side of the hill. 



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