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Mr. Weaver on the 
iron ochre. They are each two fathoms wide, ranging through 
the hill to the south-west, and are quarried for building stone. In 
the line of the Avonbeg we perceive, on the side of the mail coach 
road, repeated alternations, which first appear about half a mile 
above the meeting of the two Avons. The clay slate contains beds, 
which at the first view seem to be composed of granular felspar; 
but a closer examination with the lens shows that they mostly 
consist of a very fine grained granite, the three constituents of 
which, are, in some places, distinctly discernible. The succession 
is thus : 
1. bed granite, four feet wide. 
2. clay slate, six fathoms wide. 
3. granite, three fathoms wide, with a few intervening thin layers of 
clay slate. 
4. clay slate, three fathoms wide. 
5. granite, six feet wide, then clay slate again. 
About one quarter of a mile from the meeting of the two rivers 
are a fourth and a fifth bed, similarly composed, each about nine 
feet thick, separated by clay slate, five fathoms in thickness ; and a 
sixth, and still more considerable bed, occurs at the corner of Mr. 
Parnell's wood next the road. 
§ 65. In ascending the left bank of the Daragh river from 
Kilcarrah bridge, we perceive near the mill a bed of yellowish 
grey compact felspar, three fathoms wide, containing crystalline 
felspar, and also some little hornblende and mica scattered through 
it. Farther on, in Templelusk, is a bed of greenstone six fathoms 
wide, consisting of greenish grey felspar, with hornblende and 
mica, and even the matter of clay slate intermixed. Some smaller 
beds also occur here, analogous to the former; and beyond the 
bounds of Templelusk wood is a similar bed, four feet wide. On 
