A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End: Comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of West CornwallParis, John Ayrton
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A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End: Comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of West Cornwall
Paris, John Ayrton
Cornwall (England : County) -- Guidebooks
Iron_ and _Titanium_, with a little _Potass_. Some of which ingredients
were no doubt derived from the _gangue_ with which the metallic
substance is intimately mixed. This is a discovery no less curious than
important, and would seem to point out the origin of the _Menachanite_,
in which _Titanium_ was first discovered by Mr. Gregor.
The great mass of _Serpentine_ ends at _Coverack Cove_, a spot
which well deserves the attention of the Geologist, as offering a
series of rocks of a very mixed character; these consist of green
and reddish-brown _Serpentine_, with the _Jade_ of Saussure, (the
_feldspath tenace_ of Haüy) and _Diallage_[133] of the green and
metalloïde varieties; some of the _Felspar_ found here is of a violet
colour, and is striated like that of Labrador. In beds which lie
below high-water mark in this Cove the mineralogist may obtain masses
of _Diallage Metalloïde_, six or eight inches in length.[134] A
beautiful rock succeeds and continues for three miles along the coast
to the _Manacles_; and in the interior of the country it predominates
through the greater part of the parish of _Saint Keverne_. It has
_compact Felspar_ for its base, in which are imbedded crystals both
of _Diallage_ and _Hornblende_. In the proportion, as well as the
magnitude of these constituents, says Mr. Professor Sedgwick, there is
such an unusual variety, that we were almost led to conjecture, that
during the deposition of the mass many conflicting principles had been
in action, not one of which was long able to keep the mastery over the
others; there are for instance many large blocks which in one part
resemble a fine _Greenstone_, and in another, a coarse porphyritic
_Diallage Rock_; within the distance of a few feet these varieties may
be observed to alternate repeatedly, sometimes in the form of stripes,
but more frequently in amorphous concretions separated from each other
by lines which are perfectly defined. _Schistose Greenstone_ occurs
again at _Porthowstock_, and a small bed of _Serpentine_, on the
south-west side of _Porthallo_ in the cliff, which rests on a reddish
_Talc_ which lies, as before, on _Clay-slate_. No other variety is
observable from hence to the Helford River, except in the appearance
of a _Pudding Stone_, or _Conglomerate_, near the _Dennis Creek_,
composed of rounded fragments of Slate in which veins of _Quartz_ are
distinctly visible. The traveller will not fail to visit the stream of
_Tregonwell Mill_,[135] near the village of _Menacchan_, celebrated as
the habitat of the _Titaniferous Iron_ (_Menacchanite_, or _Gregorite_)
discovered by the late celebrated Mr. William Gregor.[136] He will
also receive much gratification by extending his route to _Mawnan_
Cliffs, where he will observe a most extraordinary intermixture of
fine and coarse grained (_Grawacke?_) slate, which are traversed by
many contemporaneous veins, some composed of _Quartz_, and others of
_Ferriferous_ _Carbonate of Lime_; some small cavities are coated
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