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of clays and lias. In Derbyshire I saw amygdaloid, 

 carboniferous limestone, millstone - grit, and other 

 secondary rocks. To-day the rocks seen were 

 carboniferous limestone, sandstones of several forma- 

 tions, a splendid mountain of the first secondary 

 limestone beyond Kendal, mountains of a kind of 

 slate intermediate between clay slate and compact 

 felspar. With respect to botany, I could not mark 

 much of any importance. Inula dysentenca, Sangui- 

 sorba officinalis, Convolvulus sepium, etc. 



Between Kendal and Shap is a track of high 

 ground, covered with peat and heather, as wild as 

 any that I have seen in the Highlands or Hebrides. 



EDINBURGH. 



At Carlisle I slept nearly four hours. It had 

 rained heavily during the night, and when I arose 

 at four, it still continued. Breakfast was on the 

 table in the coffee-room, and after appropriating to 

 myself a moderate quantity of it, I ascended the 

 Edinburgh mail, to which I had transferred myself 

 by paying 7d. additional. The distance to Edinburgh 

 is 96 miles, and we arrrived there at half-past three. 

 At the head of the Solway Firth the land is alluvial 

 and almost perfectly flat, enclosed by hedges, generally 

 without trees in them, contrary to the English 

 practice. On coming to the Esk we passed for several 

 miles along that river, crossing and recrossing it 

 several times. The scenery was perfectly Scottish 

 that is to say, the fields large, the trees left to assume 



