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when working there I was not quite sure whether the workings 
were in Ayrshire or Dumfriesshire—they are close on the march of 
the two counties—so I will just mention I found Kermes (red 
Antimony) there, with the other usual Antimony minerals ; I do 
not include this locality in the lists of minerals annexed to this 
paper. The rich field for minerals at Wanlockhead and Leadhills 
I need not further allude to, beyond saying that exceedingly fine 
specimens of Calcite, Barytes, Galena, Smithsonite, and Vanadinite 
are to be obtained there. Dr Wilson of Wanlockhead has done 
much of late in developing the minerals of that district, and has 
made a very fine collection ; he has most kindly contributed some 
very fine specimens to the Observatory Museum. Leadhills is 
actually in Lanarkshire ; the places are so near together, and the 
minerals of both localities are so nearly identical, that they may be 
classed in one list. Gold was at one time worked for over a large 
area in that district, and was all obtained from the alluvial deposits 
in the various valleys. That the gold originally came from quartz 
‘‘reefs ” containing the metal there can be no doubt, but none of 
these reefs, if they still exist, have been discovered ; many pieces 
of quartz containing gold have from time to time been found by 
the miners and others, and one tolerably large piece of quartz 
showing a good deal of gold is now placed in the Museum of 
Science and Art; Edinburgh, and is well worthy of attention. The 
late Duke of Buccleuch ordered a lithographic plate to be made of 
this interesting specimen, a copy of which will be found in the 
Observatory Museum. Atkinson, in his “ Discouverie and Historie 
of the Gold Mynes in Scotland,” 1619, mentions that a Mr George 
Bowes obtained from James VI. a permit to work the gold mines 
in Scotland, that at Winlocke Head he discovered “a small vaine 
of gold which had much small gold upon it.” He swore his work- 
men to secrecy, and after working the vein for some time, carried 
off to England a considerable quantity of gold ; before leaving, he 
caused the shaft to be closed up and concealed ; this vein appears 
‘to have been looked for, and is alluded to by several other parties 
about this time ; it has never been re-found. In the preface to a 
French account of the reign of James V., a translation of which 
was published in London in 1710, it is said that “in the King’s 
reign (James V.) gold mines were found in Crawford Moor by the 
Germans, which afforded the King great sums. The Scots did 
separate the gold from sand by washing.” And again—“In 
James V.’s time 300 men were employed for several summers in 
