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and sand, whence we have just disinterred it, and glanced 

 curiously at its strange features, and given only a few pass- 

 ing hints at its stranger history. 



A Pkactical Hint. 



To obtain an adequate knowledge of that interesting and 

 remote though still obscure epoch of our earth's history— the 

 glacier epoch — it is not necessary to visit Greenland or Ice- 

 land or even the Alpine glaciers. If a man has his eyes in 

 his head — the characteristic of a wise man according to Solo- 

 mon — he may see proofs of glacier action on the sides and 

 bottom of almost every valley in Scotland, and if these 

 should fail to convince him of the positive existence of such 

 ancient agents, he has only to visit the " Crichton Boulder." 



Minerals lately Found in Dumfriesshiee and Gallo- 

 way, NOT HITHERTO NOTICED AS OCCURRING IN THE 



localities. 



Dumfriesshire. 

 At the junction of the Esk and Liddle, in Red Sand Stone. 

 Fibrous Gypsum — 



Glendinning, Eskdalemuir, at an Antimony Mine 

 recently re-opened — Cervantite, Valentinite, 

 (psedumorph) Cervantite after Valentinite. 



Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. 

 Creetown — Granite Quarry — Epidote. 



Pibble Mine — Malachite, green and blue, Towa- 

 nite, Pitchy Copper Ore, Chrysocolla, Galena, 

 Anglesite, Cerussite, Pyromorphite, Wulfenite, 

 Blende, Smithsonite, blue. 



Creetown — Cassencary — Kupfer Nickel, Nickel ochre. Em- 

 erald Nickel (1) Cobalt bloom. Native Arsenic, 

 Galena, Towanite, Blende. 



