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MINERALOGICAL REMARKS. 295 I was as unfortunate at Uihelly as at "Tolichrä, Dr. Weis, phyfician to the county, for whom I had letters of introdudtion, was out, and as there was a fair here, as well as a county meeting, the inns and alchoufes, if fuch exifted, muft have been full; but I had no lofs in the doctor’s abfence except that of his company, for his lady received me in the moft friendly manner, and was as kind to me as a mother. There are fome very high hills clofe to the town, which go under the name of Schator; as I recolleéted to have read in Mr. Born’s Catalogue Raifonné of: a“ Granite alteré par le feu volcanique,” from a mountain of this name, I immediately began to hunt afterit. I afcended two or three of the higheft, but I’ found nothing that could be confidered by the moft fery. mineralogift to have been a granit. I faw nothing but porphyry * of a reddifh brown ground, well charged with particles of du/aria, and fcattered with {mall cryftals of black Hornblende; the white particles having rather a roundifh than a parallelopipedal form, I fufpected theni to be Lexcites, or white Vefuvian Garnets, but they melt with the blow-pipe like Adularia, and have a {parry appearance when viewed with.a /ens, * PR * Porphyrius. = Ex Jafpidé ? hepatica particulis albis fubdfaphanis Adülariæ, & fparfiscriftallis parvis ; Hornblende Bafaltin®, compofitus. ‘Pubi ferruminatorii ope bafis fcoriamalbams Soconcretionesalbe-vitrum diaphanumy prebent. In 43
