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.
In general the Shawnee lived in small, round bark-covered wigwams they called wikkums or weekeewa, each occupied by a small family group. A larger council house in each villag â¦ e was built of timber and looked something like a longhouse, but it was only used for ceremonies and meetings.