XI. An Account of the Tracks and Footmarks of Animals found impressed on Sandstone in the Quarry of Corncockle Muir, in Dumfriesshire

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The sandstone quarry of Corncockle Muir is situated between the rivers Annan and Kinnel, about a mile and half above their confluence, and not quite three miles from the town of Lochmaben in Dumfriesshire. It is near the top of a low, round-backed hill, which stretches about half a mile in a westerly direction, almost in the line of the rivers. This hill rises out of a valley of irregular surface, terminated, at the distance of some miles, on the north and north-west, by a mountainous range of transition rock; on the south by an arm of the same range; and on the east, at a greater distance, by lower elevations, consisting, according to Professor Jameson, partly of floetz-trap and partly of the independent coal-formation. The valley itself is said by the same authority to be of the independent coal-formation, lying on the transition rock, and contains considerable quantities of sandstone interspersed in various parts, and stretching as far as the bottom of the mountains.

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