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butiori towards those individual descriptions of 

 stony masses, and their mutual relations, from the 

 aggregate of which alone, we can hope to extract 

 the principles of accurate science, respecting the 

 structure of the earth. — To relieve the fatigue of 

 continued attention to mineralogical details, no- 

 tices of the most striking picturesque objects 

 which occurred, will occasionally be intro^ 

 ducedi 



I have adopted the title of this paper, because I 

 do not venture to propose it, as even approaching 

 to a complete account of the extensive districts 

 over which I passed. The object in view, was to 

 mark the geognostic features on the great scale, of 

 the alpine country which was examined. My re- 

 marks, accordingly, are of a general nature, and in- 

 tended only to pave the way for more particular 

 investigation. A minute oryctognostic detail of all 

 the subordinate beds, veins, and individual mine- 

 rals which may be discovered, in the leading for- 

 mations of mountain-rock that are to be noticed^ 

 will not, therefore, be expected. It would indeed 

 have required a greater portion of leisure, than I 

 was able to bestow ; and must be left to the pa- 

 tience and industry of future inquirers in the same 

 track. 



The examination of such objects is necessarily 

 attended with considerable labour and difficulty % 

 but at the same time,- it rewards the observer's 

 exertion, by the most striking and instructive 

 views, There is in fact, no department in the 



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