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Blackburn, and around Bathgate it is completely exposed 

 by the extensive workings of Kirkton, Petershill, Galla 

 Braes, North and South Silver Mines, Wardlaw, and Hill 

 House. In the neighbourhood of Linlithgow the limestone 

 appears again at Bowden and Carruthers, and terminates 

 in the sea near Borrowstownness. Near Dechmont Law, at 

 Kirkliston, Newton, and Port Edgar, quarrying operations 

 have exposed several other limestones, all of which are pro- 

 bably more or less connected. Concerning the distribution 

 of the white sandstone series, little need be said, since, if we ex- 

 cept the various ignigenous masses, it forms all that portion 

 of the Lothians which is not occupied by the three forma- 

 tions, the boundaries of which we have endeavoured to as- 

 sign. In regard to the localities of the igneous rocks of the 

 Lothians, nothing here requires to be noticed, as these have 

 been already detailed with sufficient minuteness, when con- 

 sidering their associations with the Neptunian strata. 



We have given a more or less particular relation of the 

 geognostical structure of the three Lothians, and shall now, 

 by a short description, connect it with those parts of the 

 county of Fife, which form the northern coast of the Firth 

 of Forth. 



The strata which are met with in Fifeshire may be 

 referred to three series, viz. the red sandstone, the moun- 

 tain limestone, and the white or carboniferous sandstone ; 

 all of which, however, in their modes of relative association, 

 are precisely similar to the secondary stratified system of 

 the Lothians. The lowest member of the stratified series 

 of Fife is, as in the counties of Haddington and Edinburgh, 

 the red sandstone; it passes insensibly into the white sand- 

 stone, with which it alternates bobli on the large and 

 small scale. The mountain limestone is, it is needless to 

 state, not a formation situated between the red and white 



