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 the shore which lies to the eastward of Ord, as particularly interesting in this view; since, if it does not present examples of an exact and satisfactory transition between the two rocks, it affords very instructive views of the change which, under particular circumstances, occurs in the sandstones, from the distinctly granular and arenaceous to the compact and quartzose state.