An Outline of the Mineralogy of the Shetland Islands, and of the Island of Arran: Illustrated with Copper-Plates; With an Appendix; Containing Observations on Peat, Kelp, and Coal
An Outline of the Mineralogy of the Shetland Islands, and of the Island of Arran: Illustrated with Copper-Plates; With an Appendix; Containing Observations on Peat, Kelp, and Coal
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1798 edition. Excerpt: ...mountains, but to increafe in fize and round-nefs in proportion as their fituation is higher. Alfo in the Vivarois, the lowed ftrata of primitive lime-ftone, have been found of the thicknefs of one-tenth of an inch; but in proportion to their elevation in the mountain their thicknefs increafes, until at its ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1798 edition. Excerpt: ...mountains, but to increafe in fize and round-nefs in proportion as their fituation is higher. Alfo in the Vivarois, the lowed ftrata of primitive lime-ftone, have been found of the thicknefs of one-tenth of an inch; but in proportion to their elevation in the mountain their thicknefs increafes, until at its fummit, it arrives at thirty or forty feet. i. Soulavie, 178. Ferber made the fame obfcrvation in England. At a little diflencc from the fhore, is the entrance into the deep Glen-Sanicks, which is about four miles long, running nearly eaft and weft, bounded on both fides by lofty mountains: on the north, the Cairns, with part of Cairn-na-cal-lich; and towards the fouth, Keich-na-hein and Coalfield, Coatfield, form boundaries awfully grand. The fides of the glen are much furrowed by the aftion of the rain. This circumftance, with the red colour of the decompofmg granite, the immenfe blocks that cover the fides and tops of the mountains, form altogether a fteril and tremendous fcene. In lonely regions, here retired From little fceues of art, great Nature dwells In awful folitude. Here we obfervc feveral veins of bafalt traverfing the granite, and in fome places we can trace the perpendicular veins, from the bottom to the top of the mountains. A the top of this glen is the hollow called Cory-na-huave, which is bounded by Cairn-na-calligh and Keid-voe. Its bottom is higher than that of Glen-Sanioks, and ia all compofed of granite, penetrated with veins of bafalt, fome of which have a confiderable dc-. gree of curvature. The water from the fur-rounding mountains is collected in this hollow, and rufhes over its elevated bottom into Glen-Sa-nicks, through which it pafles. Before reaching the fea, it forms a confiderable ftream, named Sanicks-burn, ..
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