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GEOLOGY. 



THE GOLD-riELD AND GOLD-DIGGINaS OP ORAWTOED- 



LiroSAY (LANAEKSHIRE). 



By W. LAUDER LINDSAY, M.D., F.R.S.E., F.L.S. 



{^Contimted from page 317.) 



SINCE the last instalment of these contributions to the 

 Civil and Natural History of the Crawford-Lindsay gold- 

 diggings and district was written/ there has been published in 

 Edinburgh a work which is sure to take its place at once as a 

 standard one on the subject of which it treats. I refer to Mr 

 Cochran-Patrick's 'Records of Mining in Scotland.' ^ 



Before discussing further the subject of the present series of 

 papers, it is obviously desirable to pause for the purpose of in- 

 quiring whether the important work in question throws any new 

 light, or light at all, on the puzzles that have engaged our atten- 

 tion : for instance, on the determination of the question whether 

 auriferous quartz exists, and was mined in the olden time, in any 

 part of the Crawford-Lindsay district. 



It may be stated at once that these ' Early Records ' do not 

 furnish us with any new fact of importance, though they may 

 assist in the new interpretation of old facts, by furnishing what 

 will probably henceforth be regarded as the correct or official 

 reading of certain interesting old chronicles. 



Mr Cochran-Patrick's 'Records ' are valuable^ chiefly for — 



I. The early history of the Scotch gold-mines given in the 

 " Introduction." 



^ 'Scottish Naturalist,' vol. iv. p. 305. 



^ ' Early Records relating to Mining in Scotland : ' collected by R. W. 

 Cochran-Patrick of Woodside, LL.B. Cantab., F.S.A. Scot. Edinburgh: 

 David Douglas. 1878. 



3 In a letter of date Feb, 1878, he says : "In dealing with the ' Records,' 

 I have given them as they stand — verbatim ; leaving to those who have, like 

 yourself, specially studied the subject from a geological point of view, to say 

 whether the conclusions arrived at by the old searchei'S are true or not." 



