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a ditch for instance ; with the mud they cover that side of the skin 

 required to be stained ; and they prefer this material to the solution 

 of copperas, probably with reason, as the sulphate of iron formed 

 by the decomposed pyrites acts more mildly in this state than when 

 applied in the common way. 



The horses are very fine, and in general docile ; when well trained 

 they make excellent chargers. Their size is from 12| to 141 hands, 

 and they vary in price from three pounds to twelve. Mules, as we 

 have before observed, are considered more useful beasts of burden. 

 The breed of sheep is quite unattended to, and mutton is rarely 

 or never eaten. Here is a very fine and large breed of goats, whose 

 milk is generally used for domestic purposes. The dogs are very 

 indifferent, and of no distinct race. 



In my walks round the city, I had frequent opportunities of exa- 

 mining the singular succession of horizontal strata, that form the 

 eminence on which it stands. They lie in the following order: — 

 first, one of red vegetable earth of variable depth, impregnated 

 with oxide of iron ; below that, sand and adventitious matter of 

 diiferent shades of colour, as ochre-red, brown, and dusky yellow, 

 together with man}' rounded pebbles, which indicate it to be of ra- 

 ther recent formation ; it varies in depth from three to six feet, or 

 perhaps to seven, audits lower part is uniformly yellow : under this 

 is a bed of exceedingly fine clay of various colours, but for the most 

 part purple ; the white and yellow is the purest in quality ; it is in- 

 terveined with thin layers of sand in various directions. Then suc- 

 ceeds a stratum of alluvial matter, which is very ferruginous ; it 

 rests on a halfrdecomposed substance, apparently migrating from a 

 granite, in which the proportion of feld-spar exceeds that of the quartz 

 and mica *. The whole is incumbent on compact granite. The 



* Probably the colouring matter arises from decomposition of the mica ; I have fre- 

 quently observed a mass of granite having its surface decomposed into a red clay, in which 

 the particles of mica were hardly perceptible, while the compact rock belpw contained a 

 very fair proj)ortion of that substance. " • • "i •■' ; '■ 



