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took up my lodging, as there are no gentlemen here, with the Judge,
and he let me have the beft he had, which was very little; a ftraw
bed on the floor, milk and eggs and coarfe bread.
I came here in fearch of the Telkobanya Chry/opal and Wasxepal,
but I fought and fought in vain. I could find nobody here who
knew any thing of it; and afterwards I learnt that it is found three
or four miles off. But as Mrs. Weis, my laft hofpitable hoftefs, had
given mea handfome provifion of it, I was lefs anxious about it, and
Mr. Fichtel has informed us how it is found. His account is this, that
in the Gfcherhezy-Farka hill, which is compofed of that kind of zeolite
which I found near ‘Tokay, there are very large veins of jafper,
fome fo large as to form rocks (probably like thofe I faw near
Tolfchva) : in fome places it is half decompoled and cellular ; in this,
this beautiful foffil is found; fometimes forming veins, fometimes
nodules, and thefe latter vary in fize from the fize of aman’s head to
{mall grains, The veins of jafper this gentleman confiders as ftreams
of lava, and fuppofes the opal, which it contains, to be afterwards
The red fort, which Mr. Born places
formed by percolation.
amongft the pitch-ftones, is found -on the Feketehegy hill, ten-or
fifteen miles from Telkobanya. This fupplies here the place of the
jafper, forming entire and large veins, but the hill itfelf is Porphyry.
Though I didnot find what I principally came for, yet I found
here fome interefting foflils, not mentioned by Mr. Fichtel.—Clofe to
Qq 2 the
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