Note 5 — INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
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The hills of Zeghren opened: a low range, running nearly east and west; their appearance different from any we had yet seen, long, oval, and truncated at the top—colour black, with white streaks.
About the same time a detached rock came in view: it was about a hundred feet high, and 200 from the land from which we descended.
This is the geological structure of the neighbouring land, which has at no very distant period been joined to this. W. O.