The island is mountainous in the main, almost continuously so, indeed, along the east coast, and very largely granitic, with a number of lofty upland plains in the east, and volcanic in the west.   anvd [Please select]

In about three hours the Victoria was crossing with extreme rapidity an expanse of stony country, with ranges of lofty, naked mountains of granitic formation at the base.   anvd [Please select]

These were known as the Colombiere, the Grosse Tete, Tas de Pois, and the Marmotiers; each with its retinue of sunken reefs and needles of granitic gneiss lying low in menace.   anvd [Please select]

The country through which our route had lain heretofore was altogether granitic, though one could see hills apparently of stratified material in the distance.   anvd [Please select]

In the northern and central parts of this central region the rocks are granitic; the hills to the south of the Plains of Chivela are limestone.   anvd [Please select]

The most remarkable boulder, for instance, of a weight of at least an hundred tons, was distinctly recognisable as identical in every respect with the granitic syenite of Schooley's mountain, distant at least forty miles.   anvd [Please select]