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gravel and angular blocks existing in the boulder clay and diluvial 

 gravel. 



(4.) That there had been rushes of water along the country, 

 which bore along the mud, sand, gravel, and boulders now spread 

 over the country, and which, in passing over the rocks and large 

 boulders, smoothed and rutted them. 



(6.) That, at this period and subsequently, water must have stood, 

 in a comparatively tranquil state, above the level of Sampson's Ribs, 

 to account for the beds of sand existing on the south side of Artliur 

 Seat, and at a level of 200 feet above Duddingston Loch. 



(6.) That the outline or configuration of the district, thus sub- 

 merged, could not have been materially different from what it now 

 presents. 



3. Results of the Makerstoun Observations, No. II. On the 

 Relation of the Variations of the Vertical Component, 

 of the Earth's Magnetic Intensity to the Solar and Lu- 

 nar Periods. By J. Allan Broun, Esq. Communicated 

 by General Sir T. M. Brisbane, Bart. 



List of Patents granted for Scotland from 2Sd March to 

 22d June 1846. 



1. To Julius Adolph Detmold, of the city of London, merchant, 

 being a communication from abroad, " improvements in the means of 

 applying steam as a motive power." — 23d March 1846. 



2. To Alexander Bain, of Hanover Street, Edinburgh, engineer, "im- 

 provements in electric clocks and telegraphs, parts of which improvements 

 are applicable to other purposes." — 25th March 1846. 



3. To James Ivers, of Preston, in the county of Lancaster, machine- 

 maker, " certain improvements in machinery, or apparatus for preparing, 

 roving, and slubbing cotton, wool, and other fibrous substances." — 30th 

 March 1846. 



4. To James Stokoe, of Newton, in the county of Northumberland, 

 mill- Wright, " improvements in purifying the vapours arising from smelt- 

 ing, and other furnaces, and in recovering therefrom the useful matters 

 which may be intermixed therewith." — 2d April 1846. 



5. To William Mather and Colin Mather, of Salford, in the county 

 of Lancaster, engineers, " certain improvements in boring earth, stone, 

 and subterraneous matters, and in the machinery, tools or apparatus ap- 

 plicable to the same." — 2d April 1846. 



6. To Charles Cowan, paper manufacturer at Valleyfield, near Peni- 

 cuick, in the county of Edinburgh, " improvements in the manufacture of 

 paper, millboard, and other similar substances," which is partly his own 

 invention, and partly the invention of a foreigner. — 3d April 1846. 



7. To George Daniel Bishopp, of Paddington, in the county of Mid- 

 dlesex, civil-engineer, ** improvements in certain engines or machines 



