It is upon occasion of describing one of the species of alpine stone or schistus which contains quartzy particles.
The first are those which commonly form the alpine countries, consisting of various schisti, of quartzy stone, and granites.
And we can assign no reason why silver {139} and other metals should not be found in the argillite with quartzy veins, and in the other rocks of the transition period, which we know to exist in these mountains.
These trees grew in a shallow bed of alluvium, enclosing abundance of agate pebbles and kunker, the former derived from the quartzy strata above noticed.
The contrast between the fertility of the alluvium and the sterility of the protruded quartzy rocks is very striking, cultivation running up to these fields of stones, and suddenly stopping.
There is however another species of schistus, forming also the same sort of mountain; it is the micaceous quartzy schistus of the north of Scotland.
They are continuous with a line of quartzy cliffs, covered with scarlet rhododendrons, and in the holes of which a conglomerate of pebbles is found, 150 feet above the river.
The spur that divides these plains from the Lachen river, rises close to Kinchinjhow, as a lofty cliff of quartzy gneiss, dipping north-east 30 degrees: this I had noticed from the Kongra Lama side.
The fundamental rock, wherever I saw it, appeared to be clay-slate, sometimes passing into chert orquartzy sandstone.
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