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iX. Observations on fhd Mineralogy/ of the 

 Neighbourhood of St Andrews in Fife. 



By the Rev. John Fleming, Fliski 



(Read 5th February 1813 J 



^HE county of Fife contains two very distinct 

 formations of rocks, which belong to the Floetz class. 

 The country to the north of the river Eden, which 

 runs through Fife in a direction of west to east, 

 contains strata which are connected with the Old 

 Red Sandstone, and are geographically related to 

 the beds of sandstone, porphyry and greenstone, 

 which I formerly described to this Society, as ex- 

 tending along the shore of the Tay, from Dundee 

 westward, on the north bank of the river. The 

 southern portion of Fifeshire, contains strata exclu- 

 sively belonging to the Independent Coal Forma- 

 tion, and forms an interesting part of the coal- 



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