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bourhood of KingVHouse t and this continues 

 through a variety of co-relative rocks, till we 

 reach the bottom of Glencoe, when gneiss, mica- 

 slate and clay-slate again appear in their due 

 geognostic position. 



It seems, therefore, to be ascertained, that the 

 great formations which have been traced from 

 Callender to Glencoe, occur also in the same re- 

 lative order, as lying over the subjacent nucleus, 

 on the other side of the primitive country ; and 

 that, on the principles of legitimate induction* 

 without any reference whatever to theory, the 

 structure of the Highlands, along the course we 

 have followed, as a matter of fact, corresponds 

 with the system of the geognosy : thus far illus- 

 trating the principles of a doctrine which pro- 

 fesses only to describe nature, in the mineral king- 

 dom. 



If, indeed, any order actually exists in the com- 

 ponent parts of this department of the material 

 universe, such as is observed over all the rest, it 

 must be discerned, even through the veil of de- 

 composition and waste, wherever there are rocks 

 of different species. It cannot therefore be more 

 extraordinary or unnatural, that the structure of 

 one country on the great scale, should resemble 

 that of another, in the kind and succession of its 

 formations, than that any individual mineral, such 

 as greenstone or felspar, should be found of simi- 

 lar characters in the most widely distant regions 

 of the world y and Werner in truth has only 



