84 Dr. Duncan on the Foot-marks of Animals 
Art. XI.—Account of the Tracks of Foot-Marks of Animals 
found impressed in Sandstone in the Quarry of Corncockle 
Muir, Dumfries-shire ;*. by the Rev. Henry Duncan, D. 
Minister at Ruthwell. Communicated by the Author. 
Tue sandstone quarry of Corncockle Muir is situated be- 
tween the rivers Annan and the Kinnel, about a mile an 
d sandstone. Its texture is friable, and its strata of very 
unequal thickness. It lies in the direction of the greater 
urt of the sandstone of the district, which is from west 
north-west to east south-east, with its dip southerly, inclining 
at an angle of 38.° 
. The remarkable phenomenon I am about to describe, as 
existing in this quarry, is that of numerous impressions, fre 
quently distinct and well-defined, of the foot-prints of quad- 
rupeds, which have been found y the workmen on the sur- 
been removed in the process of quarrying. ‘This fact; so ex- 
paw to that of the hoof of a pony, I shall give some account 
of one ren e track impressed on a slab, formerly in the 
possession of Mr. Carruthers of Dormont, (who procured 
it from the quarry some years ago,) and now forming part 
of the wall of a Seemtershouse in the garden belonging to 
the manse of Ruthwell. On this slab, which is five feet two 
: : * The Editor has been indebted to Dr. Duncan for this abridgement of his ve- 
'¥ interesting and valuable paper, which was read at the Royal Society of Ed- 
January i i i 
in 
oe last, and which will 
Bead > now the press, 
