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often admired the refpeftable condu& of the Hungarian peafantry; I
never obferved in them any of that ferocity of, which they are accufed
in Auftria, nor that mean and fneaking difpofition, though they
treat their fuperiors with great refpe&, which one might expe to
find in a peafantry hardly emerged from a ftate of bondage.
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Soon after leaving this village, there is on the right hand, over¬
hanging the road, a moft remarkable rock: it is a ftrange mixture
indeed; a Breccia compofed of fragments of glafly pitch-/fone
(pechfcin), both compa& and cellular, both grey and black, fcattered
with parallelopipeds of adularia, with fragments of pumex, and
here and there fragments of a porphyry with a bafe of reddith white
petrofiléx with grains of pellucid Quartz, Thefe fragments, more
heterogeneous in their appearance than in their nature, are imbedded
in, or cemented by, a mafs’ no lefs curious; it is in appearance like
fand-ftone,’ or rather granulated Quartz, in fome parts, particularly
if viewed with a lens, it has a contorted fibrous texture, in other
parts it is more like pitch-ffone, bat diaphanous and fomewhat granu¬
lated ; where it is moft compact 'it firikes fire. Though this Breccia
appears fo very heterogeneous, yet it is very homogeneous in its
natures” the fragments of the different coloured pitch-/lones, and
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likewife che Zumex "and the cementing matter, are all of the fame
nature: ‘they all intumefce under tle blow-pipe with phofphorefcence,
and form a white light fcoria which fwims in water: fome fwell by
g heat
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