II. Remarks upon the Hills of Badacson , Szigliget , &c, in Hungary . 
By RICHARD BRIGHT, m.d. 
MEMBER OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
[Read 17th May, 1816.] 
The small town of Keszthely in Hungary, is situated on the 
north and west shore of the Balaton Lake, or Platten See. The 
country around is generally flat and alluvial, but a low ridge of 
limestone hills covered with forest, stretches towards the north and 
west, leaving a strip of marshy land between it and the lake. The 
road runs along the raised bases of these hills, and conducts towards 
Tapolcza, leaving the lake several miles to the south. The country 
now exhibits one extensive and marshy plain, in the midst of which 
are seen a few. small detached mountains whose sides are clothed 
with vineyards and their summits broken with rocks. Of these I 
visited the four most striking, namely, Csobantz, Badacson, Szigliget, 
St. Gyorgay-hegye ; and it is from two of these that the specimens 
which accompany these observations were obtained. 
In ascending Csobantz, we first came to a pit dug in the side of a 
hill, which presented nothing but a horizontally stratified yellow 
sand, generally crumbling down under slight pressure, and full of 
glittering particles, I believe micaceous. A few paces farther we 
found extensive scoriated masses firmly fixed, and to all appearance 
