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Bunter-sandstein: Gres bigarre: Sandstone and quartzose conglomerate. Equisetites columnaris. The first of these, or the Keuper, underlying the beds before described as Rhaetic, attains in Wurtemberg a thickness of about 1000 feet. It is divided by Alberti into sandstone, gypsum, and carbonaceous clay-slate.
The fact here worthy of observation is the effect of time in decomposing this grès, or sand-stone, which contains the gravel. All the other appearances follow naturally from the situation of this place, which is a summit, and does not allow of such a collection of water as might travel or transport the loose gravel, although it has been sufficient for carrying away the sand.
But it was in the side streets, courts, and impasses that branched off to the left and right of the main arteries, that one came upon the very heart of the old Pays Latin; for the Rue St. Jacques, the Rue de la Harpe, the Rue des Grès, narrow, steep, dilapidated though they might be, were in truth the leading thoroughfares the Boulevards, so to speak of the Student Quartier.
The town is ugly and beautiful; it is like a dull quaint grés de Flandre jug, that has precious stones set inside its rim.
Occasionally a few citizens or cavalry could be seen running across the streets, and quite a number of negroes were seemingly busy in carrying off bags of grain or meal, which were piled up near the burned depot. Captain De Gres had a section of his twenty-pound Parrott guns unlimbered, firing into the town.
Poring over the bookstalls in the Place du Panthéon or the Rue des Grès hurrying along towards this or that college with a huge volume under each arm, about nine o'clock in the morning haunting the cafés at midday and the restaurants at six swinging his legs out of upper windows and smoking in his shirt-sleeves in the summer evenings crowding the pit of the Odéon and every part of the Theatre du Panthéon playing wind instruments at dead of night to the torment of his neighbors, or, in vocal mood, traversing the Quartier with a society of musical friends about the small hours of the morning getting into scuffles with the gendarmes flirting, dancing, playing billiards and the deuce; falling in love and in debt; dividing his time between Aristotle and Mademoiselle Mimi Pinson ... here, and here only, in all his phases, at every hour of the day and night, he swarmed, ubiquitous.
(Page 184.) «Le matin avant de partir du Chapiu, j'allai voir si les beaux grès rectangulaires, que j'avois observés la veille descendoient jusqu'au bas de la montagne; j'y trouvai effectivement des grès mais
A big jug, an Apostel-Krug, of Kruessen, was solemnly dancing a minuet with a plump Faenza jar; a tall Dutch clock was going through a gavotte with a spindle-legged ancient chair; a very droll porcelain figure of Littenhausen was bowing to a very stiff soldier in terre cuite of Ulm; an old violin of Cremona was playing itself, and a queer little shrill plaintive music that thought itself merry came from a painted spinet covered with faded roses; some gilt Spanish leather had got up on the wall and laughed; a Dresden mirror was tripping about, crowned with flowers, and a Japanese bonze was riding along on a griffin; a slim Venetian rapier had come to blows with a stout Ferrara sabre, all about a little pale-faced chit of a damsel in white Nymphenburg china; and a portly Franconian pitcher in grès gris was calling aloud, "Oh, these Italians! always at feud!"
Our author would here make a distinction of the roche feuilletée and the grès; the one he considers as primitive, and as having had an origin of which we are extremely ignorant; the other he considers as a secondary thing, and as having been formed of sand deposited at the bottom of moving water, and afterwards becoming stone.
TERTIARY: Headon Series and beds between the Paris Gypsum and the Gres de Beauchamp: 14: 10 English, 4 French. Barton Clay and Sables de Beauchamp: 0. London Clay, including the Kyson Sand: 7 English. Plastic Clay and Lignite: 9: 7 French, 2 English. Sables de Bracheux: 1 French. Thanet Sands and Lower Landenian of Belgium: 0. SECONDARY: Maestricht Chalk: 0. White Chalk: 0. Chalk Marl: 0.
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