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lOlh Sfptember. — Left home about half-past six in the morning 

 for Thornhill, and lyet J. Hunter, when we set out for Wanlock- 

 head. In a sandstone quarry, before coming to Enterkin, we 

 found the marks of several fossils, among which we found one 

 specimen of uliymaria, and a particular impression upon some of 

 the hard stone which I supposed to resemble the drawings of the 

 footmarks of tlie tortoise found by the Rev. Mr Duncan. The 

 rock which composes the Enterkin hills seems to be greywacke 

 slate, or a rock approaching to it, with a considerable number of 

 veins and incru.stations of silica. 



After a minute description of the Lead Mines at Wanlockhead 

 and of the means adopted for crushing and separating the lead 

 from the quartz, he makes the following remarks : — Owing to the 

 poisonous nature of the water, which has been employed in the 

 wasliing of the lead, no dogs can be kept. There is no poultry 

 of any kind, and no pigs are kept. Cows are kept, but they 

 frequently die. Five died last season. Horses are little required. 

 Tliere are only three kept at Leadliills for a mill connected with 

 tlie Lead Mines. The climate is of the severest description. 

 Corn rarely ripens, and is only cultivated for cutting green for 

 cattle. The potatoes are small and watery. Fruit such as 

 apples, currants. Arc, rarely ripen. Tlie greens and other vege- 

 tables I saw were by no means good, and were very late. At 

 Leadhills there is a plantation of trees, chiefly beech, around the 

 director's house, which have attained a considerable height — 

 what we of the low country would suppose to require twenty 

 years, but upon inquiry no one remembers of their planting. 

 The oldest men since their childhood remember of them being 

 always the same, and it is thus supposed they must be consider- 

 ably above one hundred years old. Gold is frequently found 

 after heavy rains in the sandbeds of the streams.- Ore boy found 

 lately a piece which he sold for £,?>, but the quantity found is too 

 small to repay the time and trouble required in procuring it. 

 Mr Hastings, Wanlockhead, told me of a curious custom there 

 of naming the different clusters of houses after the oldest inhabi. 

 tant of them. 



21st September. — Breakfasted with Mr Shaw, of Drumlanrig 

 and saw the fish pond and tiie specimens of his fish. He lent me 

 his paper upon the natural habits of the salmon, but I will refer 

 to what I saw and to his paper in a day or two. When at the 



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