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“8th. Clay, used for brick, two feet and a half. 
“9th. Flagstone, six inches. 
“10th. Hard Clay, used for furnace or fire bricks, 
three feet. 
* 11th. Nodulings or pinney Beds, composed of lumps 
of good Limestone, set fast in earthy matter. 
“12th. Lower Lime-roof beds, four feet and a half. 
“* 13th. A hard, compact, good Limestone, from 
which, the principal supply of stone is now obtained, by 
mining underneath, and leaving pillars to support the 
roof; herein the Orthocere are fouud, accompanied by 
Nautili, and some other spiral shells, Producti, Trilo- 
bites and Corals, thirteen feet. 
“14th. Clay, six inches. 
“ 15th. Lowest Doggers, fourteen inches. 
“ Below these, Sandstone and Limestone are said to 
alternate, for about 50 feet ; and then a very hard rock 
commences, perhaps Basalt? ‘The dipis N.K. 1 in 8. 
‘“¥n the Bajarg Lime quarries, situated about two 
miles W.S.W. from those of Closeburn, Orthocera 20 
feet long have been found, in the Limestone rock (per- 
haps the same bed as No. 13 at Closeburn) as I was in- 
formed by Mr. John Milligan, the agent resident there.” 
Mr. farey also observes, ‘‘ [tseems to me remarkable 
that Professor Jameson, in p. 91 of his ‘ Mineralogy of 
Dumfrieshire,’ when speaking of the Closeburn and Ba- 
jarg quarries, omits all mention of these remarkable 
Orthocere, but speaks of ‘large Ammonites, as I be- 
lieve by mistake.” 
In pages 91, 97, and 99, Mr. Jameson says, “ that 
the petrifactions of Closeburn and Bajarg, correspond 
with those of other quarries in a more southern part of 
the county at Brown-muir, Blacket-rig, and Chaldron- 
linns, where Corallites, Chamites, and Mytillites are 
mentioned.” 
