SOUTH COAST OF THE CRIMEA. 
apparent boundary between aluminous and sili- 
ceous bodies, in some examples ; such, for in- 
stance, as the transition from yellow indurated 
clay to jasper ; and from trap to hornstone. In 
the Museum at Tronijem, in the north of Norway, 
the Danes exhibit what they call a passage from 
carbonated lime to si lex ; and in Copenhagen , entire 
collections have been formed of similar ap- 
pearances. The Norwegian specimen is however 
nothing more than a flint, part whereof has 
undergone a very high degree of decomposition, 
similar to the substance found in the neighbour- 
hood of Paris, called Pierre legbre, and Quartz 
nectique. The French have exhibited such ap- 
pearances in the same erroneous point of view. 
The Abbe Hath/, and the celebrated Chenevix, 
have derided the vulgar notion of transi- 
tions in the mineral kingdom ; involving the 
science in a labyrinth of “ passages, which lead to 
nothing .” 
Soon after the capture of the Crimea, precisely 
at the time of terrible earthquakes in Hungary 
and Transylvania, a large portion of the immense 
cliff above the village of Kvttchuckoy fell down, 
and buried it. The late Empress caused the 
place to be restored at her mvn expense, 
(0 Traits dc Min^ralogie, tom. III. p. 242 . Par, 1801 . 
