[Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] by Phillip Parker King]@TWC D-Link bookNarrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] CHAPTER 5 524/583
Mr.Koenig has found it extensively in the sienitic tract of Jersey;** where blocks of a pudding-stone, bearing some resemblance to the green breccia of Egypt, were found to be composed of compact epidote, including very large pebbles of a porphyritic rock, which itself contains a considerable proportion of this substance.
And Mr.Greenough has recently received, among specimens sent home by Mr.J. Burton, junior, a mass of compact epidote, with quartz and felspar, from Dokhan, in the desert between the Red Sea and the Nile.
When New Holland is added to these localities, it will appear that few minerals are more widely diffused. (*Footnote.
See Cleaveland's Mineralogy 1816 page 297 to 300.) (**Footnote.
Plee's Account of Jersey quarto Southampton 1817 page 231 to 276.) 3.
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