THE GEOLOGIST. 



AUaUST, 1859. 



SKETCHES FROM NOTE-BOOKS. 

 No. 1.— NOTE ON SOME GHANITE-TORS. 

 By T. Rupert Jones, F.G.S. 



Many of the common things that occur to ns in our walks and rides 

 near home, and which occasionally- are noted in om' memorandum- 

 books on account of the clearness of theii' features, or for the sake 

 of some occasional peculiarities in the details observable in them, 

 may not only often prove as useful exem]3lifications of natural pro- 



Lign, 1. — Vixen Tor, Dartmoor, Devonshire. 



cesses and phenomena as facts and instances brought from any 

 distant part of the world, but may bear repeated description and 



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