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ward the south. On the eastern side, the disposition is somewhat 
similar, dipping next to the sea 25°, but ascending to 50° toward 
the land. The general thickness of the compact beds is from one 
to five feet, separated by beds of greenish or purplish clay slate 
from two to twelve inches thick. In a second cove, which is im- 
mediately under the steep northern face of Bray Head, we find cal- 
careous spar intermingled both with the compact and slaty beds. 
It traverses them also in the form of numerous small contempora- 
neous veins and strings, which commonly range in the line of 
the dip. On the western side of this cove the rocks range 25° 
north of east, and south of west, and dip 43° toward the north-' west. 
They are broken to the south-east, and the line is occupied by allu- 
vial soil, but they rise again on the eastern side and form a com- 
plete arch, dipping beyond it 52° to the south-east. T.hi sarch is 
immediately succeeded by several distinct undulations, in the third 
of which an intermixture of calcareous spar may again be observed, 
in the form of veins, strings, and contemporaneous masses ; and 
quartz under the same circumstances, also occurs, particularly in 
the compact beds. 
Beds of this description, yet much shattered and broken, con- 
tinue to line the coast of Bray Head, which in a great part of its 
course is quite inaccessible ; but in the south-eastern quarter they 
may be approached for a short extent, ranging 15° south of east 
and north of west, and dipping 30° toward the north-east. 
These stratified rocks ascend the northern and eastern brows of 
the Head a considerable way up, resting against and partly inclosing 
the massy unstratified quartz rock. They jut out to the sur- 
face in many places, and the line of their succession may be traced 
with the eye; but in ascending the hill, they acquire a higher 
angle in the line of apposition, reaching to 60°. The eastern face, 
of the Head has generally ah inclination of 30° toward the ocean, 
