At the light-colored extreme are rocks made up mainly of quartz and the feldspars, with about 70% silica. Such rocks are called granitic rock. Rocks which contain large amounts of the ferromagnesian dark matter and about 50% silica are said to have basaltic composition.
It became the House of Burgesses â the first legislative assembly in the American colonies. The first assembly met on July 30, 1619, in the church at Jamestown. Present were Governor Yeardley, Council, and 22 burgesses representing 11 plantations (or settlements) Burgesses were elected representatives.
The First Election of Washington to the House of Burgesses by R. T. Barton, Winchester, VA, 1892. Men are generally proved to be great by a happy conjunction of opportunity and fitness. This detracts nothing from their fame, only there are many other men quite as great, to whom the happy conjunction does not occur.