Unmetamorphosed

Oh, here comes the Colonel unmetamorphoſed ; now for another Scene of Diſſimulation.

The bull’s head is, indeed, here half humanised, having only the horns and ears of the animal ; while in the more ancient fragment above cited both symbols are unmetamorphosed.

Hence, the mean composition of the argillaceous sediments of any geological epoch, or, in other words, the proportion between the alkalies and the alumina, will depend not only upon the age of the formation, but upon the number of times which its materials have been broken up, and the periods during which they have remained unmetamorphosed and exposed to the action of infiltrating waters.