A Memoir: Explanatory of the Chart and Survey of the County of London-Derry, IrelandG. and W. Nicol, 1814 - 359 pages |
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Page 80
... lime , in large veins , and some- times in parallelopiped figures ; it usually contains a considerable pro- portion of magnesian earth . The blue colour is derived from the iron which it contains : its fracture exhibits a granular ...
... lime , in large veins , and some- times in parallelopiped figures ; it usually contains a considerable pro- portion of magnesian earth . The blue colour is derived from the iron which it contains : its fracture exhibits a granular ...
Page 81
... lime of the same country is bluish , granular , and laminated . In the basalt coun- tries , the silica is in the character of flint and petrosilex , and the lime- stone is white and abundant in marine exuviæ . Both quartz and flint are ...
... lime of the same country is bluish , granular , and laminated . In the basalt coun- tries , the silica is in the character of flint and petrosilex , and the lime- stone is white and abundant in marine exuviæ . Both quartz and flint are ...
Page 84
... lime- stone is the beautiful arrangment of those nodules of flint , which seem to have retreated out of the vast amalgam of shell - limestone , and to have arranged themselves in rectilinear and equidistant allignments , parallel always ...
... lime- stone is the beautiful arrangment of those nodules of flint , which seem to have retreated out of the vast amalgam of shell - limestone , and to have arranged themselves in rectilinear and equidistant allignments , parallel always ...
Page 85
... lime is again depressed under the level of the ocean , and does not reappear till near Bushmills . These apparent discontinuations of the lime - stone may be owing to a curving of the strata ; in some places this curving is evidently ...
... lime is again depressed under the level of the ocean , and does not reappear till near Bushmills . These apparent discontinuations of the lime - stone may be owing to a curving of the strata ; in some places this curving is evidently ...
Page 90
... lime , to be carried off in a state of solution . I have found masses of calca- reous spar , mixed with zeolite , in considerable branches and veins through basalt . 2nd . The uppermost stratum basseting to the west , as viewed from the ...
... lime , to be carried off in a state of solution . I have found masses of calca- reous spar , mixed with zeolite , in considerable branches and veins through basalt . 2nd . The uppermost stratum basseting to the west , as viewed from the ...
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aforesaid late county Aghadowey Aghanloo ancient appears appurtenances balliboes of land bank Bann Barley barony basalt belonging Benbradagh Bishop of Derry Botanic Names bushels called castle chiefly church city of London-Derry clay coast county of Coleraine county of London-Derry county of Tyrone Culmore demesne district ditches ditto Donegal Dungiven erected Fahan farmers farms feet fish flat flax Foyle frequently gardens Garvagh granted grass gravel grounds guineas hereditaments improved Ireland Irish kingdom of Ireland known lake land following laying letters patent lime limestone London Lough Foyle Lough Neagh Maghera Magherafelt Magilligan manure meadows miles Moneymore mountains Myroe native neighbourhood Newtown oats Observations pastures places plant plantation potatoes precinct present proportion proprietors province of Ulster rent or value ridge river river Foyle rocks salmon sand shist singular soil stone strata surface swells tenant tenements trees Ulster aforesaid vale varieties villages wood
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