CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898 — Page 173

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in the prune grauiter Mica is not

tale also in about, int

to the leas

comblende appeams Everywhere, and

"Chlorite Schioli

I shmed

Jany

Hornblende schists and Actiquolite

Schiste are

я боль по

fairly

amer love.

all line

used in buildings being obtanied from the bouncing of coral on

Shells.

oys ir

The lower hills between the Mountain ranges an

are y

laterite,

rounded or conical in shape, wh will covered with vegetation,

Combining to four the extremely picturesque scenery nemalis,

associated with such formations. The richly cultivated valleys Eying between, jomed by the the surrounding

Denudatioi

mot caclA

wham a few feet of good voil overlying

laterite. Some Excavations,

Bud

a wills

Distinctly

fiewed thei

weny

The laterite is what

would be called

a wares Cabook

in Ceylow, fit for euthing out in blocks for bulding purposes- This is extremely, like the disintegrated Granite of stongkong, but contain: more silicate of alumina and

tu latter shewring

crire

in large nodule. Some realient pottery, clay

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