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THE GEOLOGIST, 



loaves of ferns, branclies, and fruits of coniferous trees like the yew 

 and cypress. 



Tims we see that in this lonely and, to the superficial eye, utterly 

 unattractive village, we tread upon a spot once instinct with animal 

 life in its most miarvellous organic forms. It is a subterranean 

 museum closely and securely packed, a treasury for palgeontologists, 

 a storehouse containing numerous instances of the skill, power, and 

 wonderful resources of creative Omnipotence, which could people a 

 world with the strangest organisms, and yet permit them for so 

 many ages to remain hidden and entombed, being well able to dis- 

 pense with then* testimony to its powers. 



THE CARBONIFEROUS SYSTEM IN SCOTLAND CHARAC- 

 TERIZED BY ITS BRACHIOPODA. 



By Thomas Davidson, Esq., E.R.S., F.G.S., Hon. Member of 

 the Geological Society of Glasgow, etc., etc. 



( Continued from page 240.^ 



" This group in Northumberland is seen, westward of Alnwick at 

 G armitage-bank and Crawley Dean, and on the flanks of the porphyry 

 of the Che^'iot in Biddleston Burn, and in the Coquet below Linn 

 Brig ; it occupies a considerable area in the south part of Berwick- 

 shire, and is largely developed on the Tweed at Carham, Coldstream, 

 Norham, etc. ; it is seen underlying the mountain-limestone on the 

 sea-coast from near Lammerton Shiel to Bmmmouth ; on the 

 north side of Lammermuirs it is intercalated between the Old Red 

 Sandstone, and the mountain-limestone from the Pees mouth to the 

 Cove harbom"." 



Mr. Tate observes also that the Campsie and Fifeshii-e beds re- 

 semble those of Northumberland. 



We Avill now conclude by offering a list of the Scottish locahties, 

 distance, and direction from certain towns, as well as of the natui-e of 

 the sediments in which Carboniferous Brachiopoda and other maiine 

 fossils have been hitherto procured, with the hope that such may 

 prove of use to cnillrciors and geologists generally, and by thanking 

 all those kind and zealous fi'iends for the great mterest and impor- 

 tant assistance they have afforded me dui'ing the prosecution of this 

 somewhat lengthened inquiiy. 



