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washing gold, of which they got above £100,000 English money." 

 In a memoi'andum by Kobert Seton, temp. James V., it is stated 

 gold has been found at fNewtoun, in Angers (1) ; Cartburn, in 

 Annandale ; Solway Sands, near the new toun of Annand ; Glen- 

 naip, betwixt Carrick and Galloway ; Galloway, in the Barony of 

 Terregles ; and in a hill called Colochere Hill ; in the Hill of Skrill 

 (Screel of Bengairn '?) " mucho oro y grandes pedacos." As to these 

 localities mentioned by Seton, I have never met with any notice of 

 gold being obtained from any of them other than in the above- 

 quoted memorandum. Gold can always be found in the Wanlock- 

 head district ; it is rather wet and dirty work obtaining it ; and 

 what with employing men to dig in the alluvium and assist in 

 washing, any I have got myself has cost about a shilling a grain, 

 the intrinsic value being about twopence. Wanlockhead lead con- 

 tains about five to seven ounces of silver to the ton ; the two metals 

 are separated by Pattinson's beautiful process. 



I attach lists of minerals to be found in the diff'erent localities 

 in the district, so far as I know. I have not a doubt, however, 

 but that the lists can be extended. For instance, I have never 

 found such a common and widely distributed mineral as Garnet, 

 which, 1 cannot help thinking, must exist somewhere in the 

 district. T must, however, now leave further research in this 

 direction to younger hands, feeling assured that perseverance, par- 

 ticularly in the lemoter parts of the district, will be attended with 

 success. 



I think it should be one of the arst objects of this Society to 

 make as complete lists as possible of all the natural productions of 

 the district. If all societies similar to ours did so, a mass of infor- 

 mation would be obtained of the greatest use to all interested in 

 the diff'erent branches of Natural Science, and at the same time 

 save specialists an immense amount of unnecessary labour. 



DUMFRIESSHIRE. 



Wanlockhead (including Leadhills). — Anglesite — Arra- 

 'I'onite — Asholaue — Aurichalicite — Barytes — Calamine — Calcite — 

 Caledonite — Cerussite — Chalcedony — Chalcopyrite — Chalybite — 

 Chessylite — Chlorite — Chrysocolla — Dolomite — Erythrine (Cobalt 

 bloom) — Galena — Gold — Greenockite — Hematite — Jamesonite — 

 Jasper — Kupfernickel — Lauarkite — Leadhillite — Limnite — Linar- 

 ite — Lydian-stone — Malachite — Melaconite — Mimelite — Minium — 

 Mountain - wood — Mountain -leather — Plumbo-calcite — Plumbo- 



