Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist.

Date:
[1855?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I exclusively of the primary, or, as they are often I called, the granitic, or crystalline rocks, and the unstratified rocks derived from them. Sur- ; prise is always experienced by those who, \ leaving the shores of England at night, see the peculiar and rugged features of these rocks ; in strong contrast with the scenes left behind j on the following morning. The point of em- }i barkation being commonly Southampton, the II impression of the alluvial tracts around that y town, and especially of that most remarkable [ series of strata presented by the Isle of Wight, j are not effaced before the eye is called upon to (, survey a scene of the most 023posite description, i! In this contrast we have an interesting illustration of the fact, that the geological structure of any district is the determining cause of its peculiari- ties in lespect of scenery. No rocks can be more : I strongly in contrast with each other than those JI belonging to the granitic series and regularly j:stratified rocks, such as the chalk of the Needles. I. -^^^6 appearance of a stratified rock evidences a if certain degree of mechanical regularity in its B formation which is generally absent from rocks belonging to the unstratified class, granite, syenite, &c. The one sometimes resembles the rtrorksof art ; the other wears resemblances the ^lost wild, irregular, and fantastic, to almost p, 3very object that can be named, and particu-