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between Millknowe and Spartleton consists of a beautiful 

 Granite like that of Cockburnlaw. Spartleton itself appears 

 to be Metamorphic Greywacke elevated by Granite. 



Near the top of the burn which joins Fassney Water below 

 the mouth of Kilpallet burn, Greywacke Slates occur generally 

 of a drab colour containing many curious organoidal markings. 

 Some of these markings, of a red colour upon a drab ground, 

 have the forms of plants, and are very beautiful, others are 

 evidently efflorescences of Manganese. On the opposite bank of 

 the Fassney at the mouth of this burn, Metamorphic Greywacke 

 of a dark blue colour dips N.W. about 80°. Just below this, 

 the stream runs for a considerable distance along an anticlinal, 

 the dips on either side being to N.W. and S.E. at high angles. 

 Further down, the N.W. bank consists of speckled Porphyry 

 and the S.E. of Metamorphic Greywacke for some distance. 

 The Porphyry is the same as that seen near Elmford. A great 

 many fragments of similar Porphyry occur in the Old Eed 

 Sandstone Conglomerate at Hardens, etc. The direction of the 

 junction is N.E.-S.W. About a quarter of a mile below the 

 mouth of the burn on the same side of the Fassney, 

 Metamorphic Greywacke, nearly vertical occurs, strike 

 N.E. to S.W. A little lower down a conformable dyke 

 (perhaps a continuation of the above, being in the same line) 

 of a very hard, apparently Quartzose Porphyry, of a red colour, 

 crosses the stream in a N.E. to S.W. direction. The strata 

 are highly metamorphic, occasionally altered to a sort of 

 Jasper, and at the junction, are welded to the igneous rock. 

 They are nearly vertical, dipping N.W. and S.E., conform 

 to an anticlinal, probably the same as the one appearing 

 below the mouth of the burn. Midway from the burn to the 

 bend of the Fassney above Priestlaw, the strike of the strata 

 is N.E. by N., nearly vertical. A mass of Porphyry of the 

 description most common among the Greywacke Strata here 

 crosses the stream. It presents the appearance of beds 

 dipping N.E. by N. about 60°. Below this a Claystone 

 Porphyry, identical with that of the Conglomerate dykes, has 

 broken through the Greywacke, here of a red colour, and much 

 altered, the planes of stratification being superseded by 

 the induced structure due to the Porphyry, which exhibits 

 divisional planes running N.W. by W., but not very distinctly 

 marked. On the other side of the stream a little further on 



