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VII. Mineralogical Description of Tinto, 



By Dr Macknight. 

 (Read nth April 1S12. J 



TiNTO, the subject of the following paper, is a 

 mountain of Lanarkshire, which rises to the height 

 of about 1700 feet above the flat, to the east of 

 its base, and 2300 from the level of the sea 

 Standing distinct from the mountain-ranges which 

 appear on the south and east, and from which it 

 is isolated by the intervening course of the Clyde, 

 it forms a conspicuous and magnificent object, as 

 viewed from the adjacent lower country, on the 

 north and west. 



The name of Tinto, which signifies, it is said, 

 ** the Hill of Fire," seems to imply, that in ruder 



* This mode of estimating the height of TintOj may pro- 

 bably reconcile the very different statements of it^ which have 

 been given. Jameson's Geognosy^, p. 315. 



