On the Southern Border of the Highlands of Scotland

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Having lately visited many of the passes leading into the Highlands, I found the arrangement of the rocks along the border so different from what I had been led to expect by what has been published on the subject, that I venture to offer the following remarks upon the Border formations, although I am far from having materials for a complete account of them. Mr. Nicol's ‘Guide to the Geology of Scotland’ gives us a good summary of what was known on the subject up to 1844, and little or nothing has been added since; his account, therefore, will often be referred to. In MacCulloch's Map of Scotland a band of blue colour, indicating “Clay-slate or Greywacke,” stretches across Scotland from Stonehaven to Bute and Arran, bounded on the south by the Old Red Sandstone, and on the north by mica schist, and within this clay-slate are represented the bands of limestone of Loch Lomond and Aberfoyle. Mr. Nicol's map includes in the same band of clay-slate the limestones of Callander and that on the South Esk near Cortachie. Mr. Buist's Map of Perthshire, published in the forty-fifth number of the Journal of the Highland Society, draws into the same Clay-slate Formation the limestone between Dunkeld and Blair Gowrie.

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