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counts. There are also numerous indications of them in the 

 Lothians and Berwickshire, for an account of which I re- 

 fer to Mr Maclaren's lately published work on the Geology 

 of Fife and the Lothians, in which he gives a full and in- 

 teresting account of the proofs of a rise in the bed of the 

 Forth ;* and in the paper of Mr Milne on the Mid-Lo- 

 thian and East-Lothian coal-field, t much attention has 

 been paid to the raised marine beds in this part of the 

 Island. Mr Milne states that " he walked along the whole 

 shore from St Abb's Head, round by Dunbar, North Ber- 

 wick, Aberlady, Cockenzie, and Newhaven, to Queens- 

 ferry, and traversed the greater part of the Carse district 

 from Falkirk to "beyond Stirling," and every where found 

 traces of a change in the sea level. In his report on the 

 Geology of Berwickshire, J he notices indications of a 

 change of the sea level of about 100 feet. I have thus 

 traced these deposits round Scotland — they occur in every 

 one of the maritime counties, indicating changes of level in 

 every part of the northern division of the Island. I have 

 no doubt that marine beds belonging to the newer plio- 

 cene extend also throughout England and Ireland. 



• P. 228. 



t Transactions of Royal Soc. Edin. vol. xiv. p. 334. &c. 

 $ 4th Report Brit. Association, p. 638. 



