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current towards the fource; along its banks, as well as ontheir furface, layers of granite are difcernible, and mixed withred fpath. Thefe ftrata run in a direclion from North toSouth, fometimes precipitately decline towards the Eaft, andare occafionally inverted. Each bed is from one fpan to threefeet fix inches in thicknefs, and confifts of the moft perfektprimitive granite, being a continuation of that mineral traftwhich caufes the cataracts of the Dniepr, and occupies thediftrift between the Berda and Molofhnye Vody. Near thevillages of Gromoklea and Suyaklea (each twenty-five verfts)the rocky layers on the banks of the rivulet were compofed ofa coarfe-grained granite, intermingled with a large portion ofpale feld-fpar, likewife difpofed in ftrata running from Northto South, and ftanding inverted. A peculiar perennial fpeciesof C/jpeo/a, with yellow flowers and grey leaves, was herefrequent upon the rocks, as well as on the foil adjacent to thecataracts of the Dniepr. Somewhat to the left of our road,lies the pleafant village of Gregoriefka, the property of MajorBerends, on the banks of the rivulet Kamyfhevata. Abovethat place, I faw a quarry of granite, in which occur thickftrata of quartz, interfected with layers of feld-fpar, and re-fembling veined wood. Still farther, on the upper banks ofthe Kamyfhevata, white porcelain-clay is dug on the eftate ofMajor Titof; it is mixed with particles of quartz and finemica; being very fimilar to granite decompofed by the atmo-fphere, and from which the Briftol porcelain was formerlymanufa&ured, after its conftituent parts had been wafhed, andthe quartz reduced to an impalpable powder. Near the rivulet

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