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Museum. Some of the members thought, however, that 
this need form no insurmountable reason why the paper 
might not also be read to this Society, beds of sand and 
gravel having of late become of much more interest to all 
naturalists, from the presence in many of them of early 
human remains ; accordingly he had much pleasure in being 
allowed to read the following notes : — - 
V. Remarks on a Bronze Implement, and Bones of the Ox and Dog, 
found in a bed of undisturbed gravel at Kinleith^ near Currie, Mid- 
Lothian. Bj John Alex. Smith, M.D. (The Bones and Bronze Im- 
plement were Exhibited.) 
Locality. — A little to the east of the village of Currie, and rather 
more than five miles to the west of Edinburgh, the Water of Leith 
receives on its right bank the streamlet of the Kinleith Burn, which 
flows in a rapid though short course from the Pentland Hills imme- 
diately to the south. Below the junction of the Kinleith Burn, 
the narrow valley of the Water of Leith gradually becomes wider, 
and opens into an oval-shaped haugh of tolerably level land, 
measuring altogether some 8 or 10 acres ; and, at the lower 
extremity of this valley, where the banks on each side again 
approach the stream, the bed of the river, as the Ordnance Survey 
Map informs us, is 400 feet above the level of the sea. 
The Water of Leith runs along the northern border of the haugh 
just referred to ; and on the level part of the ground are situated 
the paper mills of Kinleith, about midway between the stream 
and the sloping bank, which bounds the valley on the south. The 
engine chimney rises at the south side of the works, and from its 
prominent position in the gorge of the little valley, it has on two 
different occasions been struck and partially injured by lightning ; 
in consequence of which the proprietor, Mr Henry Bruce, deter- 
mined last summer to build a new chimney, a little to the south 
and east of the old one. For this purpose, a circular space of 
ground, about 23 feet in diameter, was marked out on the green 
turf of the level haugh, at a distance of 293 feet from the present 
bed of the stream ; and the process of excavation commenced. 
The superficial vegetable mould was first cut through and removed, 
when finely laminated beds of sand and clay were exposed ; in 
some places the former, in others the latter being most abundant. 
[Specimens of the pure sand, and clay, were exhibited.] 
Section of Beds. — These beds of sand and clay measured from 5 
