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294 MINERALOGICAL ‘REMARKS
my ‘hoft and Cicerone, as he'and fome more gentlemen of the town
were going to the county meeting. We made a large party, a whole
waggon full ; for this was the vehicle of conveyance. ‘The fabject
of converfation on the road weresthe Germans, who had been fettled
here by the Emperor Jofeph, againft whom they: raifed great com¬
plaints for having negle€ted and mifmanaged the farms which had
been given them ; I was hardly fuffered to fay a word in favour 6f
German induftry, though my companions acknowledged that againft
the German colonies, planted by the emprefs Therefa, they had
nothing to fay.
On the road I found feveral kinds of Bafaltes, one fo glaffy as to
be almoft a pitchflone, and the Saxum metalliferum, but the mica fo
fine as to require almoft the aid of a lens’ to be’ vifible; and a Por=
phyry * which has the white indurated clay for its bafe ; but this
is fo hard as to give fire with fteel.: it contains large grains of pellucid
Quartz and Feldfpar, or rather Adularia. This was only a ride of
four or five hours ; we pafled by Patax, where the Calvinifts have a
college which is only inferior to that of Debretzin, and the ruins of
an old fortrefs, which formerly belonged to Rakotfy. ‘Corn, Indian
wheat; and potatoes, were the produce of the plain through which
we pafled,
* Porphyrius.
Ex argilla indurata alba, cultro vix rafili facile {cintillanti, particulis parvis amor¬
phis Quartzi pellucidi & parallelopipedis Adulari . I
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