. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. 11 > ill ' 0 '11. 35^ September 1749. glimmer abounds more than the remaining cob- Itituent parts 5 and thefe two laft kinds of ftone generally run in- alternate ftripe
. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. 11 > ill ' 0 '11. 35^ September 1749. glimmer abounds more than the remaining cob- Itituent parts 5 and thefe two laft kinds of ftone generally run in- alternate ftripes. The white hme-ftone which conlifts of almoft invifible particles, is mixed in among them. The garnet-coloured quartz grains appear here and there, and fometimes form whole ftripes. They are as big as pin's heads, round, fhining, and ftrike fire with ftcel. All thefe ftones are very bard, and the mountains near the fea confift entirely of them. They fometimes ly in almoft perpendicular ftrata, of ten or fifteen inches .thicknefs* The ftrata, however, point with their upper ends to the north-weft, and go up- wards from the river, as if the water, which is clofe to the fide of the mountains, bad forced the ftrata to lean on that fide. Thefe mountains contain very narrow veins of a white, and fometimes of a greenifti, fine, femidiapha- nous, foft fpar, which crumbles eafily into grains. In this fpar they very frequently find fpecks, which look like a calamine blend*. Now and then, and but very feldom, there is a grain of lead-ore. The mountains near the fhore confift fometimes of a black fine-grained horn-ftone, and a ferruginous lime-ftonef The horn-ftonein that cafe is aly/ays in three or four times as great a quantity as the lime-ftone. In this neighbourhood there is likewife a fulphureous fpnng, having exadly the fame qualities as'that which 1 have before defcribed. Liiin. by'X, Nat. III. p. ,26. Ed, Xii. ^ ^ The. Please note that these images are extracted from s
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