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On the northern division of Greenlaw, and across the moor, runs an irregular 

 gravelly ridge, called the Kaimes, like a horse-shoe, with the hollow towai-ds 

 the hills, fifty feet broad at the base, tliirty or forty in height, and extending 

 upwards of two miles. It may be observed, in explanation of this natural 

 production, that the stones scattered over the fields towards the Tweed, consist 

 mostly of greywacke — the traiimate of French geologists — which a current of 

 water, setting in from the north towards the south, must have detached, and 

 carried from the Lammermoor hiUs into their present situation. The Kaimes, 

 consisting of similar materials, much reduced in size, may be referred to the 

 same probable origin. Dugden Moss, the great reservoir for winter fuel, and 

 producing peat Httle inferior to coal, contains a surface of five hundred acres, 

 with a depth of ten feet, resting on a bed of fine sand. 



Among the rarer species of birds which frequent this district, is the turdus 

 vescivoriis, which has only become knovro within the last three years. Notwith- 

 standing the high state of cultivation, upwards of three hundred and sixty 

 phenogamous, or flowering plants, grow within the limits of a single parish, 

 that of Eccles. The Tragopogon, which hitherto has been confounded with 

 the T. pratensis, was first added to the British Flora in 1831, by Dr. R. D. 

 Thomson. The hills to the north are clothed with heaths — the calluna vulgaris, 

 erica tetralix et cinerea, moor grasses, the reindeer lichen, cenomyce rangiferina, 

 &c. The hyosciamus niger grows wild on the coast at Ayton ; as also the Scilla 

 maritima, and Astragalus glycyphyllos — all recent discoveries. 



THE DISTRICT OF LOTHIAN. 



LoTHiANA, non ita pridem, a Lotho rege Pictoruin nomen habebat. — Buchanan. 



" From where the Tvne through corn fields waving fair, 



Hurries from Fala to the sea." 



" From where Dunkdin, on her throne of rule 



Sits queen, and sways her sceptre o'er the land : 



And where Linlithgow, seated by her pool. 



Yet glories in the good king Loth's command." — Tennant. 



Under the general name of the Lothians, are comprised the counties of 

 Edinburgh, Haddington, and Linlithgow; which, with the metropolis for 



contains sulphate of lime, muriate of soda, and carbonate of iron. Near Birgham are springs origi- 

 nating in the calcareous sandstone ; and being impregnated with bicarbonate of lime, leave a deposit by 

 which, when they drop upon plants, elegant masses are formed. — Statist. 1834. 



