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Witli which thefe mountains are but thinly covered, 

 fbems to be merely of this mouldered flate. Its lamina 

 are for the moft part very thin ; not thicker than a 

 lheet of paper. I found here too, what I have fre- 

 quently obferved in feveral Hate-mountains, that here 

 and there a layer of quite a different ftone appears, of 

 the quartz or flint kind, and that in thefe quartzy layers 

 are fiones diverfely mot out into cryftals. It is not 

 cafy to guefs how thefe heterogeneous ftrata came under 

 the others. 



The mountains lying towards the fduth, on the fea 

 coaft, are not quite fo high as thofe on the north fide, 

 and are entirely of another fpecies. Their fubftance is 

 chalky, either mere limeftone, or greater and lefs por- 

 tions of fine marble. Here and there are quarries, 

 where it is broken. The commoner!: of thefe marble- 

 kinds are dark grey and but half fine ; the bell: is white 

 and fpotted with red. This is very hard, and takes a 

 good polifh. The layers of this ftone are from three 

 to four inches, to as many feet in thickriefs. Between 

 the layers runs a fine red bolus-earth, in which neat 

 fpath-cryftals are found. 



On one of thefe fouthern mountains, in a part per- 

 fectly uncultivated and ftony, I found a piece of fine 

 white falinitic marble lying among the rufybim occa- 

 fioned by the pieces that at times detach themfelves 

 and fall down from the rock ; it was manifeftly a frag- 

 ment of fome antique work, as it plainly appeared to 

 have architectonic members carved upon it. Other- 

 wife there are no traces of any decayed ftructure to be 

 feen, 



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