Thin veins of calcareous spar and quartz intersected the granite.

On the Darling Range is found a red cellular structure capping the granite, assuming all the appearance of having been subjected to fire; it extends also in the low country about that neighbourhood.

But it may be noticed that Wilson's Promontory, the most southern point of New South Wales, and the principal islands in Bass Strait, contain granite; and that primitive rocks occur extensively in Van Diemen's Land. (*Footnote.

Time or contest had removed the ivory obstructions in the centre, but the shores on each side of the gulf were terrifically iron-bound, and appeared equal to crushing the hardest granite; the shinbone of an ox would have been to her like an oyster to ordinary mortals.

Rounding the escarpment at his elbow he saw, on a shelf of decaying granite, two waiting ponies.

The basement rocks, as to the north, appear to be reddish and grey granites and altered slate (possibly bearing fossils).

Beyond lies the main street, with some good business blocks,a First National Bank in imposing granite, and a Masonic Temple in pressed brick.

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And I send my steel to the sky, And I pile up the granite, block by block Full twenty stories high; Nor wind nor weather shall wash away The thing that I've builded, day by day.

The treasures of the earth then become developed, and stone and iron take the place of wood in all constructions, while the exchanges between the miner of coal and of ironof the man who quarries the granite, and him who raises the foodrapidly increase in quantity, and diminish the necessity for resorting to the distant market.

On one or two pieces he saw the mark No. 1, in black paint; the material resembled the Chelmsford granite, and it occurred to him that the stone had been cut in Boston.

And on top of Jenkins rested a granite crosssufficiently handsome, to be sure, for a solicitor, but nothing out of the way.

They want to bring granite from afar for their village crosses, and ugly blue slates for the roofs of the houses.

The cwms are very fine in the lower foot-hills and the glaciers have carved deep channels between walls at very high angles; one or two peaks on the foot-hills stand bare and almost perpendicular, probably granite; we should know later.