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XIV. — Geognosy of East Lothian 



By Professor Jameson. 

 (Bead lltk March 1815 .) 



All that part of Scotland which lies to the south 

 of the Frith of Forth, is denominated the Southern 

 Division ; and the tract betwixt the Frith of Forth 

 and the chain of lakes which extends from Inver- 

 ness to Fort William, the Middle Division. It is 

 my intention to lay before the Society, in a series 

 of papers, observations on several of the districts 

 that occur in these divisions. 



We shall begin with the Mineralogy of the South- 

 ern Division. — This division of Scotland is more 

 simple in its structure, and its mountains and val- 

 leys are, on a general view, less elevated, and less 

 rugged, than those that occur in the middle divi- 

 sion. Its rivers also are smaller, and its lakes fewer 

 in number, and inferior in magnitude, to those that 



' See Memoirs of Wernerian Society, vol. ii. p. 618. 

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