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In Discussion on dikes argue impossibility on fissure going right through superincumbent mass (varying hardness, - take time to trace from few dikes which have given rise to eruptions – in granitic area &c &c volcanos

[sketch] fissure

[sketch] dike – thus dike terminate

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Solubility of fluids varies with temperature ? with pressure?

Salt on surface of plains due to whole moisture being lost by evaporation therefore capillary attraction would bring water with salt to surface

Lyell remarked to me that Kylou (?) was astonished with him that the gneiss & mica-slate of whole kingdom of Norway was contorted yet no mountain chain can parallel the Banda Oriental ask Lyell for sentence