14 REMARKS ON THE VEGETABLE FOSSILS 
SECTION II. 
REMARKS ON THE VEGETABLE FOSSILS FOUND AT LENNEL BRAES, NEAR 
COLDSTREAM, AND AT ALLANBANK MILL, IN BERWICKSHIRE. 
Tue neighbourhood of Coldstream, on the banks of the Tweed, presents a 
multitude of fossil vegetables, which occur imbedded in shale, in a state of 
great confusion. As plants belonging to the class to which these vegetables 
are to be referred, have been rarely found in any deposits of the first period 
of vegetation, I shall be somewhat particular in my remarks respecting 
them. 
It has long been matter of dispute, under what class of rocks the de- 
posits in the neighbourhood of Coldstream are to be described. Some are 
of opinion that they are members of the old red sandstone series, and others 
that they are to be classed with a much more recent deposit, the new red 
sandstone. The following facts, which have been observed by my intelli- 
gent friend Mr Francis Forster and myself, will, I trust, set this ques- 
tion at rest. 
Immediately below the bridge at Coldstream, at its south end, you per- 
ceive a bed of shale, belonging to the mountain limestone series. It may 
be seen rising to the north-west at an angle of about 14°. 
Above the bridge, on the north side, beds of sandstone, bituminous 
shale, and ironstone, form the cliff, rising 8° to the west. 
Between the bridge at Coldstream and Lennel Braes, a distance of ra- 
ther more than two miles, a great variety of shale and grit beds, evidently 
belonging to the mountain limestone series, may be seen rising to the south 
and south south-west, but irregular in their inclinations. 
