CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898 — Page 172

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rock are

langely used by for

stream in land.

bridging

169/

Further inland other Trap rocks

appear, while some y Bay

Mirs

th

us lauk,

snew very distincter, the terraced and step-like appearance

these formations. The more compact with crystalline vanches scame to predominate though trap- tuffs and

clay stone pomphy rits are not absent - Spenners of basacts, queensiones and fatspar porphyries

were unmerly.

It is betremely difficult in such

a country

Af

Shans descrived

where the Varieties of trap rocks

are do urinbrønd

up with wals

g

and so anixed

the Gramatic System

to say what stien rock,

Exist;

may

not

one thing is certain, there

is Every where

a buu Kauct

Z

the

best thiilding material, and for

road macadamizing nothing could Surpacs the hard bavacts.

Ja

wo places

Icarus

distinctly stratified rocks, of

a hand, crystalline, close quained

variety

Spany

Dark

1

grey

bluish

in colour which I would

call syenitic queiss.

Pure quartz rock

4`un causar;

though in places distinct out-crops

of quanty ill were to the seen. I

saw no Schioli

mica. Schists, and weept-

11.

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