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much liglit and smoke, aud iu tliem is also found chrystal- 

 line matter. In Jutland, in the large turf bogs, there is a 

 species of turf, evidently derived from the debris of pines 

 (from the twigs and leaves), which burns like cannel coal, 

 and contains a resinous matter, which also can be extracted 

 from the fresh fir-needles. It is called Lyseklyn, and is used 

 by the inhabitants for lighting their dwellings. The resinous 

 matter may possibly be similar to those portions of the Lochar 

 pine fluid which have been so far transformed as to assume 

 the semi-solid unchrystallisable resinoid form." 



In connection with this subject, and the age of peat, I 

 bring to your notice the fact of silver coins having been 

 found not very far from the same locality. They were found, 

 while casting peats, about six feet below the surface, and were 

 said to have been about fifteen or sixteen in number. That 

 before you is the only one recovered, and I fear " treasure- 

 trove" has prevented them coming to light. Tliis one was 

 traced to the possession of an old woman in Liverpool. It is 

 of the coins called family coins, and was struck for one 

 Fujius Calemts, B. C. 82 years, to record the reconciliation 

 which had taken place between Eome and the other people of 

 Italy .''.fter the end of the Social War. It is not easy to fix a 

 time from this. Still we have something. It has been sug- 

 gested that these coins may have been carried out with 

 manure ; but the distance from the edge of the moss, and the 

 inutility of carrying manure there, would militate against this 

 supposition. From the appearance of the coin before you it 

 had been some time in circulation. 



Such are the results of our summer meetings. They have 

 not been altogether unfruitful, and have cleared the Avay for 

 again examining the same localities. But we have generally 

 endeavoured to take in too much ground, and have conse- 

 quently run over it without that careful examination the 

 country required. In our excursion to Dundrennan, for in- 



