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We found some from one to two toises broad, full of small fasciculated crystals of rutile titanite. We sought in vain for cyanite, which we had discovered in some blocks near Maniquarez. Farther on the mica-state presents not veins, but little beds of graphite or carburetted iron. They are from two to three inches thick and have precisely the same direction and inclination as the rock.
This is not the only district where ice is found within temperate latitudes in North America. In Professor Silliman's 'American Journal of Science, in a sketch of the geology of the township of Salisbury, Con. These consist of chasms of considerable extent in the mica-state, where ice and snow remain during the greater part of the year.
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