MR MILNE ON THE GEOLOGY OF ROXBURGHSHIRE. 5Q1 



Fragments from Liddesdale boulders, collected and labelled by the Rev. Mr. BARTON of Can tie ton. 



1 . In the bed of the river at the village in great abundance. 



x 2. Castleton, about a mile south-east of the Manse, so numerous that they resemble a quarry, and 

 some of them so decomposed, that the earth surrounding them, upon being dug up with a spade, 

 presents nothing but their elements. 



x 3. Tweedenhead, a little farther to the south-east of the former. 

 4. Powisholm, a very large block, blasted last year, on the west side of the Liddell, about 500 yards 



to the north of the Manse. 



x 5. Picked up in the bed of the river at the Manse. 



x 6. Between Belshiels and the Manse, in a dyke about 300 yards south-east of the latter. 

 x 7. Near Newhouse, on which Mr Milne broke his hammer, about 150 yards from No. 6. 

 x 8. Thorlieshope, about seven miles north-east of the Manse, very abundant for many miles, especially 



in the direction of the Carter. 



9. Liddellbank, about seven miles to the south-west of the Manse; the most southern hill in the 

 parish. 



10. Greena, about half a mile to the north of the former. 



11. South Burnmouth, on rising ground about a mile to the north of No. 10, in a piece of good land, 



very numerous, ugly customers for the farmers. 

 12, 13, 14. At Ettleton ? and Burying-ground, very numerous. 



x 1 5. Kershope. The boundary between England and Scotland, to the south-east of the Manse. 

 16. Blackburn, about a mile to the north-west of the village. 

 17- Berrycleuch, to the south-west of Blackburn, in great abundance. 



18. Tinnisburn, about two miles to the south of Berrycleuch, in superfluity. 



19. The upper millstone of an old querne, dug out lately from the foundation of a house to the north 



of the Manse, on the other side of the river, about 100 yards. 



Numbers 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, ]5, marked with a x, are all on the east side of the Liddell. No. 5 is doubt- 

 ful, being found in the bed of the river. 



Numbers 1, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, are all on the west side of the Liddell, and, as it 

 turns out, by far too numerous for the farmer. 



Mr BARTON, alongst with the foregoing specimens, sent to Mr MILNE a letter, from which the fol- 

 lowing extracts are made : 



" You will observe that all the specimens from the east of the river, are to be found every where 

 from Kershope, on that side of the river, to the northern extremity of the parish, and are traceable, 

 as I am informed by shepherds, to the Carter, without any difficulty. At No. 8, and for several 

 miles in circumference from it, they abound to nearly the summit of the hills. On the west side 

 of the river, however, I have not yet discovered that they are so abundant, although you will perceive 

 that they are very numerous, especially at Nos. 1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, nor that they 

 are to be found so near the summit of the mountains as on the north side. At the same time, I may 

 observe, that the soil to the south of the Manse, and at No. 2, consists solely of the debris of the grey 

 and red granite, as was satisfactorily proved to me, who am no geologist, by a mason, who has some 

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