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"No specimens
"Whirls
1 pebble of 2 or 3 inches across. These pebbles are not
well rounded and are of hard material usually a
red granite. Then there are pieces of red jasper in some,
sometimes red shale pieces, quartzites and schists. The
variety is considerable but rarely are any of the pieces
well rounded. The whole matters down rather
easily into a coarse sand.
A little further south the white quartzite of
Lulley strus is seen to come within 15 feet of the
trachyte cutting out nearly at the Etchavernies.
Portergrise. The dolomite is practically
recrystallized.
Below it is a thick zone of quartzite
also much recrystallized.
Both are cut by granites and other igneous
rocks.
Left at 12.40 for Truro then we arrived
at 8.20. Staying at the Leasant Hotel.