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214 Sir Thomas Dick Lauder oti a Brcnize Relic 



blowpipe are the same as those of Vauqiielinite. Lead in glo- 

 bules is obtained by exposing it alone, and a globule green in 

 the oxidating, and red in the reducing flame, with fluxes, when 

 properly managed, showing the presence of the copper. When 

 melted with soda on platinum wire, and then immersed in 

 a drop of water, it gives a yellow solution of the alkaline chro- 

 mate. 



It is always curious to find a rare species, hitherto confined 

 to only one well-authenticated place, in a new locality. In the 

 present instance there is an additional interest attached to an 

 observation of this kind, as the mineral is found in the native 

 country of the distinguished chemist in whose honour it is 

 named, and who discovered the metal which forms its most re- 

 markable ingredient. 



Art. lll.^-Description of a remarkable Bronze Relic Jbund 

 on the Sand Hills of Culbin, near the estuary of the River 

 Findhorn* By Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart. F.R.S.E. 



The curious antique was found three or four years ago on the 

 sand hills of Culbin, on the western side of the estuary of the 

 River Findhorn. These hills owed their origin to the prevail- 

 ing winds from the W. S. W. which, in process of time, brought 

 clouds of sand from the sandy country lying to the westward 

 of the town of Nairn, and heaped it up there, to the destruc- 

 tion of a valuable estate. Some of these hills are a hundred 

 feet in perpendicular height ; but the material composing them 

 being an extremely comminuted granitic sand, is so loose and 

 light that, except in a dead calm, it is in eternal motion, so 

 that parts of the original soil are often laid entirely bare. There 

 is one small spot among the sand hills where flinty fragments 

 are often picked up ; and as elf-bolts or flint arrow-heads 

 have been not unfrequently found on this spot, it is supposed 



• This notice is an abstract of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder's paper read 

 at the Society of Scottish Antiquaries, which will appear in the next 

 part of their Transactions, illustrated with an engraving of the full iize. 

 Ed. 



