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THE OEOIiOGIST. 
leaves of fevns, branclies, and fruits of coniferous trees like the yew 
and cypress. 
Thus wo see that in this k)nely and, to the superficial eye, utterly 
unattractive village, we tread upon a spot once instinct with animal 
life in its most marvellous organic forms. It is a subterranean 
museum closely and securely packed, a treasury for palfcontologists, 
a storehouse containing numerous instances of the skill, power, and 
wonderful resources of creative Omnipotence, which co\ild 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 their testimony to its powers. 
THE CARBONIFEROUS SYSTEM IN SCOTLAND CHARAC- 
TERIZED BY ITS BRACHIOPODA. 
By Thomas Davidson, Esq., E.R.S., E.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 
Garmitage-bank and Crawley Dean, and on the flanks of the porphyry 
of the Cheviot 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 Burnmouth ; on the 
north side of Lammermuirs it is intercalated between the Old Red 
Sandstone, and the mountain-hmestone from the Pees mouth to the 
Cove harbour." 
Mr. Tate observes also that the Campsie and Eifeshire beds re- 
semble those of Northumberland. 
We will now conclude by offering a list of the Scottish locahties, 
distance, and direction from certain towns, as well as of the nature of 
the sediments in which Carboniferous Brachiopoda and other marine 
fossils have been hitherto procured, with the hope that such may 
prove of use to collectors and geologists generally, and by thanking 
all those kind and zealous friends for the great interest and impor- 
tant assistance they have afforded me during the prosecution of this 
somewhat lengthened inquiry. 
