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Voyage to Corea and the Loo-Choo Island

by Basil Hall

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Specimens From China

Macao

1. Granite, composed of white quartz, porcelain clay, and greenish steatite, with veins of white quartz intersecting each other.

2. Fine-grained granite, composed of yellowish feldspar, white quartz, and black mica.

Quartz dykes of great magnitude traverse the granite which forms this peninsula.

Hong-Kong, One of the Ladrone Islands, Off Macao

3. Lead-coloured compact quartz rock, with imbedded crystals of flesh-coloured feldspar.

Great Lemma, One of the Ladrone Islands, Off Macao

4. Coarse-grained granite, with distinct crystals of feldspar.

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