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laminated. The ground, less steep, becomes springy, is in- 
closed, and the ravine, shallower, has deposited a considerable 
quantity of clay, sand, and gravel. Following the course of 
the ravine, or, as it may now more properly be called, the 
brook, arrive at the road which leads to Arklow ; here is a 
ford, and the brook has the Irish name of Aughatinav ought 
(the river that drowned the old man) ; hence it descends to 
the Aughrim river, just above its confluence with that from 
Rathdrum, which, after their junction, take the general name 
of the Ovo, that discharging itself into the sea near the town 
of Arklow, forms an harbour for vessels of small burthen. 
The lands of Ballinvally are to the southward, and the lands 
of Ballinagore to the northward, of the ford, where the blue 
shistus rock, whose joints are nearly vertical, is seen ranging 
ENE and WSW, including small strings of quartz, which con- 
tain ferruginous earth. The same kind of earth is also seen in 
the quartz, contained in a vein from ten to twelve inches wide, 
ranging ENE and WSW, and hading to the southward, which 
has been laid open in forming the Arklow road. 
Here the valley is from twenty to thirty yards in width, and 
is covered with substances washed down from the mountain, 
which on the sides have accumulated to the depth of about 
twelve feet. A thin stratum of vegetable soil lies uppermost ; 
then clay, mingled with fine sand, composed of small particles 
of quartz, mica, and shist ; beneath which the same substances 
are larger, and constitute a bed of gravel, that also contains 
nodules of fine grained iron stone, which produces 50 per cent. 
of crude iron : incumbent on the rock are large tumblers of 
quartz, a variety of argillite and shistus ; many pieces of the 
quartz are perfectly pure, others are attached to the shistus* 
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