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Other measures, partly intrusive in Silurian and partly in 
the Upper Old Red Sandstone, occur, one near Earlston and 
the other in the Tweed at the great bend at Old Melrose. 
At Melrose high-level alluvial terraces are very conspicuous. 
A fine example of buried river gravels below boulder clay is 
seen at Cowies Hole, about one mile below Melrose, at Newstead, 
and again at Newton St. Boswells, the rock gorge of Old Mel- 
rose being clearly post-glacial. 
III. Ash necks of Lower Carboniferous age are common 
in the region. A very large one occurs at Melrose, and most 
of the houses in Melrose are built of the agglomerate from the 
Quarry Hill near ^lelrose railway station. 
A small ash neck is found at the right bank of the Tweed 
opposite Dryburgli. 
Another is found to the east of Coldshiels Loch, about three 
miles west of Melrose, and another occurs near Selkirk. 
Several of these necks occur near Hassendeen Station, 
south of Melrose. Minto Craigs is another, and Rubers Law 
is a \ ery conspicuous one to the east of the Minto. 
IV. Take train to Gordon or Greenland Station on the 
Berwickshire railway. Some masses of intrusive porphyrite 
of Lower Old Red age, and which are represented as pebbles in 
the Upper Old Red. make up the Dirrington Laws (N. edge of 
sheet 25), also a hill entirely surrounded by Upper Old Red 
Sandstone west of Polwarth. These would afford conspicuous 
boulders. 
V. Proceeding by same railway as far east as Dunse the 
granite of Cockburn Law could be visited, and fine sections of 
the Calciferous Sandstone. The Upper Old Red Sandstone 
and Silurian rock could be seen, as well as the dolerite mass of 
Dunse Law (sheet 33). 
VI. Train to Stobs Station, S. of Hawick. Here we find 
a set of necklike masses of trachytic rocks, Pencline Pen, Skelfhill 
Pen, and several masses to the south-west. Tliese are very 
conspicuous rocks, like the fluxion trachytes of the Eildons 
and Coldshiels Hill. 
VII. Train to Shankend Station, south of Hawick. Above 
Shankend Shiels, three miles S.S.E. of station, a peculiar bed 
