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 into which it breaks are covered with dendritical delineations of manganese. The same kind of granite also occurs in a quarry by the side of the road near Little Malvern.

§ 35. Between the Wych and that part of the hill where the road from Worcester to Ledbury crosses it, a distance of about three miles, the rock is seldom seen above the surface of the ground on either side. I examined most of the places where it does appear, but did not find any thing different from what I had met with in the northern part of the range.

§ 36. The road now mentioned, rises along the side of the valley above Little Malvern, and winds round the northern face of the Herefordshire beacon. In making it, the rock has been cut down considerably on one side. I found a greater uniformity in the rocks of this part of the range, than in those which compose the northern half; there is less granite, and hornblende also occurs more rarely. The most prevalent rock is one of a pale flesh colour, of a line grain, and chiefly composed of compact felspar : it is very full of fissures, so that it easily breaks into small irregular fragments, the surfaces of which are covered with yellow oxide of iron, and on some of these there are minute dendritical delineations of manganese. They are also occasionally covered with small rhomboidal crystals of spathose iron of a golden yellow colour, with a metallic lustre. Calcareous spar, sometimes in distinct crystals, is likewise occasionally met with in it. This rock forms the greater part of the hill to the north of the road, as well as that part of the Herefordshire Beacon through which the road has been cut: but what this last hill is chiefly composed of, I am unable to say, as it is nearly covered with vegetation on all sides.

§ 37. A short way to the south of the Herefordshire Beacon, there is a mass projecting above the surface, which consists of a fine grained