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Show STCSE THAT BtltfS- i It niny In- safely said Ui.it no specimen in a geological eoihrtit-n 1 is iimrc furious than the bar of lleible saud.-tonc. which can le bent with less prcsMire than that ; rc j U il'uU In bend a pure- nf Uet i I leather of tin.' same sie. In an 1 ! article upon the Fuihjeet in the . ! Mim-mf Cllcrtorwo are tld th;it j ! when a thin slice uf the stone is lookeil at under a lens, by trans- j initial light, the (raiments are j ; seen to he hvked together like the parts of a section puzzle toy, fixed, hut only loosely. The simplest way of explaining how this stone was formed is to say Unit the grains were once firmly cemented toother by another material, which has been partly dissolved, leaving countless natural balt-and-join ts of jagged shape behind. |
