. Off-hand sketches : a companion for the tourist and traveller over the Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad . FIG. 27. while the granite, and other rocks of igneous origin, are unstratified,they still occur in veins, which are sometimes traversed by otherveins newer than themselves. This is illustrated in fig. 28, wherethe new veins project over the old granite somewhat like the hornsof a deer. These veins often penetrate the overlying deposits, andflow over the rocks which they displace, as exhibited in fig. FIG. 28.

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