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Mourne mountains ; at the Lowren-hill inGalloway; in the Grampians ; in the Isle of Arran , &c.

Subordinate beds of hornblend-rock occurin granite, at Gwindu in Anglesea; and atKilranelagh in the county of Wicklow.

Granite rests upon hornstone slate(hornschiefer) at Ehrenberg"; it alternateswith it near Tschito b on the banks of theriver Ingoda; and at the Chalet de la Paranear Chamony c . At Kandy d , a village inTartary, it alternates with hornstone; atSt. Michael’s Mount in Cornwall withquarz; in the Pyrenees e it rests upon ser-pentine.

Granite reposes upon limestone in vari-ous parts of France f , in Corsica 8 , in the

* Voigt’s min. und bergman. Abhandl. vol. i. p. 144.b Patrin. Journal de Physique, vol. xxxviii. p. 229and 289.

c Saussure’s Voyages, § 676.

“ Patrin. Journal de Physique, vol. xxxviii. p. 229,and p. 289.

e Peyrouse sur les Mines de Fer. p. 329.f Bertrand Journal des Mines, vol. vii. p. 376. — Haappeals to Faujas and Soulavie .

s Dolomieu Journal de Physique, vol. xxxix. p. 9.