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paces north-east from the nearest house, a fine set of furrows 

 occur, having the direction west 10° south. Continuing along 

 the same road, after passing through a young wood, we ar- 

 rive at the farm-house of Mid Clermiston, lying below the 

 road upon the westward. Two sets of enclosures occupy the 

 space above the road, between it and the young wood, which 

 covers the summit of the ridge ; the most northerly of these, 

 called the North Hill Park, contains two very interesting spe- 

 cimens, both situated upon the upper side of the field, and 

 close to the wood. 



No. 8. Near the middle of the upper side. Here a space of 

 several yards square has here been laid bare by my former ope- 

 rations, and furrows and diluvian dressings are most distinctly 

 visible, indicating a direction from west 10° south. One 

 small set, consisting of four or five parallel scratches, produced 

 probably by one stone, cut the rest at an angle of five or six 

 degrees, indicating west 5° south. 



No. 9. la the same field, and also close to the wood, about 

 thirty or forty paces towards the south, another specimen of 

 the same kind occurs very well characterised. 



No. 10. Immediately adjoining to this last-mentioned field, 

 on the south of it, lies another irregular field, called the 

 North Mid-hill-park. Erom the middle and upper part of this 

 field, a path leads up to the summit of the hill, in a di- 

 rection nearly due east. This path crosses an open and 

 nearly bare space, in the midst of the wood, at the dis- 

 tance of about fifty paces from the ruins of the signal-house 

 on the summit. This space is of about half an acre in extent, 

 and so bare, that no trees have grown upon it. The rock has 

 here stood up in parallel tables, as is not unusual with whin- 

 stone, running nearly east and west ; these have been com- 

 pletely rounded, as I conceive, by the current, and shew the 



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