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VIIL Short Account of the Rocks which occur in 

 the Neighbourhood of Dundee, 



By the Rev. John Fi^eming, Flisk. 

 (In a Letter to Professor Jameson.) 

 (Rmd 2^d February/ 1812. J 



Sir, 



In answer to the inquiries which you made some 

 time ago regarding the position of the claystone 

 andporphyritic rocks in the neighbourhood of Dun- 

 dee, I send you the following remarks, which I 

 made, while walking along the shore of the Tay, 

 from Invergowrie eastward to the town of Dun- 

 dee. 



In the bay at the old church of Invergowrie, 

 the shore is level, and composed of gravel ; but, 

 on the east side of the bay, the rocks of sandstone 

 form a steep precipice. This precipice is about 

 thirty feet high, and continues nearly to Dundee, 



