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and from the road at the foot o f Kinnekulle they were invisible. It
deserves attention that a species o f zeolite analysed by Bergman, who
published the result o f his experiments in the Memoirs o f the
Swedish Academy for 1784, was found in the greenstone which crowns
the top o f Mosseberg, one of these hills. This is an additional argument
for considering these hills as belonging to the floetz formation.
The structure o f Kinnekulle, and o f course of all the other hills just
noticed, will he seen in Plate XIII. fig. 2.
3 . The last hill which I have to mention is Lugnos; it is nearly
north from Billigen, and lies very near the road side not above seven
or eight miles south of Mariestadt. It is so small, and so very
little elevated, that it would have escaped my attention altogether had
I not been warned o f it before hand. It is so little elevated above the
surrounding country, that it is not nearly so well in titled to the name
of a hill as Richmond hill, and many other similar places in the
neighbourhood of London. I f we add to this, that it is covered with
wood, that it is about two miles long, and nearly one mile and a half
broad, it is easy to see with what facility it might be overlooked.
This hill is composed of the two lowest beds o f Kinnekulle and
Billingen, namely sandstone and alum-slate. This last bed constitutes
the summit; it contains, as usual, thin beds o f stinkstohe, which the
people in the neighbourhood burn into lime. There is a representation
of this hill in Plate XIII. fig. 3 .
■ Such is an account o f the structure o f twelve hills, all situated in
West Gothland, and scattered over a country about 53 miles long from
East to West, and about 41 miles from north to south, all in fact
composed o f the same beds, lying in the same order, with this singular
exception, that the bed o f limestone, which is so abundant in Kinnekulle
and the eight hills to the south o f it, is wanting altogether, at
least as far as my examination went, and which is confirmed by the
account given o f these hills by Hisinger and by the geognostical
map of Hermelin, which with a few changes has been engraven and
prefixed to this chapter.
Nor is this striking similarity, I might almost say identity, in the
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