GENERAL INDEX. 



513 



Lophophones Nigelli, characters 

 of, . . . . . 



Lothians, Mr Cunningham's Es- 

 say on the geology of the, 3 ; 

 general description of, 3; tran- 

 sition rocks, 5 ; secondary, 1 5. 

 general relations ; old red 

 sandstone, mountain lime- 

 stone and coal-formation, 16. 

 Mineralogical character of, red 

 sandstone, 22 ; white do. 24 ; 

 shales, slates, clay-ironstone, 

 25; organic remains, 28. Junc- 

 tion of transition and second- 

 ary strata, 34 ; felspathic rocks, 

 porphjTy and clinkstone, 38 ; 

 augitic or trap-rocks ; ignige- 

 nous rocks, 46 ; connection of 

 Nejitunian and Plutonian 



rocks, 49. Mld-Lotkuin. — 



St Leonard's Hill, 51 ; Salis- 

 bury Crags, 52 ; Arthur Seat, 

 56 ; Calton Hill, 59 ; Stock- 

 bridge, Bell's Mills, 63 ; Ncav- 

 haven, 64 ; Cramond, 65 ; the 

 Castle Hill, 67 ; Corstorphine, 

 68 ; dip of strata near Edin- 

 burgh, 69 ; fractured appear- 

 ance of trap-rocks, 70 ; Calder, 

 73 ; Dalmahoy Crags, 74 ; 

 Islands in the Forth, 75 ; 

 Braid Hill, 77; Blackford, 

 Craiglockhart, Pentlands, 78 ; 

 Habbie's How, 81 ; ravines, 

 gorges," 83 ; WarklaAv Hill, 



Cairn Muir, Carloj^s, 85. 



East-Lothian, 87 ; Ignigenous 

 and stratified rocks in Garle- 

 ton Hills, North Berwick Law, 

 Traprain, AVliitelaw Hill, 88 ; 

 coast near North Berwick, 90 ; 

 Whitberry, 93 ; Wilkie Haugh, 

 Dunbar, 96 ; Fassney Water, 



101. West Lothian. — Un- 



stratified and stratified rocks, 

 104. Trap-hills, Bathgate, 

 Kirkton, 106 ; Hillhouse, 

 Winchburn, 1 09 ; Binny Craig, 

 West Craig, 111. Alluvial 

 rocks, 112. Peat, 114. Boul- 

 ders, 115. Physiognomy of 

 the Lothians, 117. Topogra- 

 phical distribution of rocks, 



119. Fifeshiiv. — General 



structure of, 123. Inverkeith- 

 ing, Aberdour, Bin Hill, Fy- 

 vie, the Lomonds, 132. — Ap- 

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pendix I. Sir J. Hall's experi- 

 ments on trap-rocks, 136. — 

 II. Junction of greywacke and 

 sandstone, with granite and 

 syenite, 146. Crilfel district. 

 Loch Ken district. Loch Doon 

 district, 153. Junction of gra- 

 nite and sandstone in Arran, 

 155. Geological Map of the 

 Lothians. Explanation of 

 Plates 1-16, . . . .159 

 Lydiau stone or flinty slate, 49. 

 In rocks of Inchkeith, . . 76 



Madrepores in black flint of 

 limestone quarries near Bath- 

 gate, 108. In the Lomonds, 133 



Magnetic iron-ore in the basalts, 4 1 



Maj), explanation of the geologi- 

 cal, of the Lothians, . .158 



Mickery, geological notice of the 

 island of, . . . .76 



Minei-al pitch, elastic, in green- 

 stone and tufa near Mount 

 Eerie, 108 



Natrolite in the greenstone of 

 Salisbury Crags, 55. In the 

 tufa of the Bin Hill, . .128 



Newhaven, geological notice of 

 the neighbourhood of, . . 64 



North Berwick Law, geological 

 notice of, . . . .8? 



Olivine, a constituent in basalt, 41 

 Ordnance Survey of Scotland, 



petition for resumption of, 502 

 Organic remains in secondary 



rocks, 28 



ParneU, Dr Richard, his Prize 

 Essay on the natural history 

 of the fishes in the river dis- 

 trict of the Frith of Forth, . 161 



arrangement of the fishes 



of the Frith of Forth, . . 452 



Peat, the, of the Lothians, . 1 14 



Pentland HiUs, geological no- 

 tice of the, . . . .78 



Physiognomy of tlie Lothians, . 117 



Prehnite in rocks of Salisbury 

 Crags, 56. In Castle Rock, 

 Edinburgh, . . . .67 



Premiums offered by the Society, 470 



Ravines and gorges, origin of, 

 Rubecula Tytleri, 



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. 83 

 . 487 



