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975 Feldspathic rock N of Orange Bay

1013 yellow & common

1014 Green & tender & rare [illeg]

1015 & 16. fine greenstone Hornblende, not conchoidal fracture with spots of feldspathic rock white span & [illeg] when Hornblend does not exist

17 18 slaty sandstone, black grey coloured ─ contains numerous opake white crysts ─ drusy cavities ─ & [whiting] mingled with some minerals & as to be fusible

19 Hard compact crystalline feldspathic rock

20 Earthy red porphyry ─ white specks ─ markings purple of claystone ─

All these occurred in a hill above the greenstone

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in W by S ─ come after meeting slate & feldspathic & rocky like (755) came to this hill ─ surface flat covered with pigments curiously paved S snow softening ground like Macadam a little to the south when all the singular trappean rocks before described:

= In Trappean hills compass of no use ─

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N. of Orange bay

Crossing the peninsula in a W by S course we f meet with good slate & feldspathic rocks.─ On the west coast there is a remarkable hill, the lower part is composed of a fine grained hornblendic rock, with yellowish white spaces where little there are no crystals of hornblende: 1015 & 16 fracture conchoidal.─ the flat summit of several varieties of rock. One is a slaty sandstone (1017. & 18) coloured blackish grey.─ with containing in drusy cavities small opake white crystals.─ the rock however from a mixture of some other mineral is fusible.─ the beds dip at about ∠ 25˚ to the SW by S.─ That is nearly the same as the usual slate ─ Must we not suppose the hornblende rock to be slate altered.─ Together with the slate is a sonorous 1019 brittle pællucid feldspathic rock: angular cleavage

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also a 1020 red porphyry.─ when the base & white specks are earthy

all these rocks are fusible: About 2 miles to the south of this hill is the trappean formation before mentioned & is evidently the nearly the very last place where stratification is visible (NB. the slaty sandstone shows tendency to form quadrangular columns).─ This hill is fol  lofty though inferior the N. Slaty range─ the surface is covered with small fragments: & these are arranged so regularly (& yet on a slope): as to make one believe they were deposited under water: ─ I found the cause to be the gradual melting of snow, softens the ground so completely as to allow the stone to imbed themselves: