VI. Miner alogical Queries, proposed by Pro- 

 cessor Jameson. 



(Read,<)th April and i^th May 1808.J 



I. General Queries. 



1. Can we discern a general direction and dip 

 of the strata in Great Britain and Ireland ; 

 or is not the direction and dip rather con- 

 formable with that of the fundamental rock 

 of the districts where the strata occur * ? 



* In Humboldt's a Sketch of the Mineralogy of South 

 u America," in the journal de Physique, we meet with 

 the following observations : " What I have long said, 

 " that the direction and inclination of the primitive stra- 

 " ta, the angles which they form with the meridian of 

 " the place, and with the axis of the earth, are indepen- 

 " dent of the direction and inclination of mountains ; that 

 " they depend on laws ; and that they observe a general 

 f* parallelism, which can be founded only in the motion. 



