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indiscriminately mingled with notes upon the plants, 

 animals, or fossils met with, or quaint observations upon 

 men or manners. One might quote endlessly from this 

 olla podrida of scientific, antiquarian, and social observa- 

 tions ; but it will suffice to take, by way of specimen, 



TANTALLON AND BASS ROCK. 



Ray's account of his journey from Dunbar to Edinburgh, 

 on which occasion he paid a visit with his companions to 

 the Bass Rock. 



* August the i Qth, we went to Leith, keeping all along 

 the side of the Fryth. By the way we viewed Tontallon 

 Castle, and passed over to the Basse Island, where we 

 saw on the rocks innumerable of the soland geese. The 

 old ones are all over white, excepting the pinion or hard 

 feathers of the wings, which are black. The upper part 



