The electric light was reflected in sparkling splendour from the schist, limestone, and old red sandstone of the walls.

The marble, the schist, the limestone, and the sandstone were giving way to a dark and lustreless lining.

Geologists consider this primitive matter to be the base of the mineral crust of the earth, and have ascertained it to be composed of three different formations, schist, gneiss, and mica schist, resting upon that unchangeable foundation, the granite.

Through the beds of schist, coloured with delicate shades of green, ran in winding course threads of copper and manganese, with traces of platinum and gold.

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