358 MR MILNE ON THE MID-LOTHIAN AND EAST-LOTHIAN COAL-FIELDS. 



inconvenient to have represented them all in one column. It will be seen, that in some parts these 

 sections are blank, and have no strata indicated on them. In these, the nature of the strata has not 

 been ascertained by me, and they are left to be filled up b^' future observers. Even as to the parts 

 which are filled up, it will not be supposed, that the strata marked are meant to afford more than an in- 

 dication of what generally exists in the district. This column has been constructed almost entirely from 

 information supplied by the tacksmen or the managers of the coal, in different parts of the district. It 

 may be proper to mention, that several of the terms employed by them, I have ventured to translate in- 

 to geological language : — as, for example, " blaes" I have translated " shale, — " freestone" I have 

 translated " sandstone," — ^^ faikes" has been described as " slaty sandstone." 



Since the foregoing Memoir and most of this appendix was thrown off, it has been resolved to 

 append hereto the coal and lime table, referred to on page 260 of the Memoir. It has been found possible 

 to reduce it to a smaller scale than was at first anticipated, and it was thought, that the Memoir 

 would be more complete by having it attached. It is accordingly now given on Plate XVIII. After 

 what has been said of this table both in the Memoir itself and in Appendix A, it is unnecessary to offer 

 here any explanations as to its objects, or the mode of its construction. I would only observe, in 

 regard to the names of places and persons at the top of the table, that the names of the former repre- 

 sent localities, where the strata are of the thickness and at the distance from each other, stated in the 

 same column below, — the one being stated in feet and inches, the other in fathoms and feet. The names 

 of persons indicate the individuals from whom the subjacent details were obtained, or by whose permis- 

 sion and assistance they were procured. Where there are no persons' names attached to the names of 

 places, the information was obtained from my own observation, or from individuals whose names were 

 unknown to me. 



Perhaps I may be here permitted to mention, how readily every person connected with the district, 

 whom I applied to for information, not only communicated to me what they themselves knew, but gave 

 me access to any plans or reports in their possession likely to contain information. It is of conse- 

 quence, even in a scientific point of view, to mention this, — as it affords much encouragement to such as 

 are disposed to prosecute geological researches, to learn that those who are most able to assist them in 

 their difficulties and labours, are also the most willing to do so. 



