E n g ra v ed b y J- S h u ry fo r DTZTioijisoti'j
CHAPTER IIL
MINERALOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF WEST GOTHLAND.
Boundaries—Rivers—Lakes—South and W est composed of Gneiss—Twelve Hills in the
Interior-—Their Heights—Account of Hunneberg and Halleberg—Of Kinnekulle—Of
Billingen, and the Seven Hills near it—Of Lugnos-—These Hills all composed of
Floetz Rocks—Striking Similarity in their Structure—Inquiry into the Cause of this
Similarity—Rest of West Gothland alluvial—Immense Blocks of Gneiss scattered
through it—List of the Animals found in Gothland—Description of the Falco Um-
brinus.
T h o u g h West Gothland contains no mines, yet its mineralogy
struck me as sufficiently remarkable to deserve a particular detail. I
devote a separate chapter to the subject, because I could not have
mixed it with the observations contained in the last chapter without
injuring the perspicuity and destroying the interest o f both. I shall
terminate the chapter with a list o f the animals that have been found in
this extensive province.
I have to regret that the specimens which I collected during my
journey have not yet arrived, so that I am reduced to the necessity o f
drawing my descriptions partly from memory, and partly from observations
written down at the time. Some difficulties will perhaps remain
unresolved till my specimens arrive. For when I happened to
meet with a rock which I could not readily name, I satisfied myself
with collecting a sufficient number of specimens to decide the point at
home, when I should have leisure to enter upon the subject. The
want o f these precludes the possibility o f any such determina-
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