This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. An examination of the Mineral History of the Island of Arran* In the year 1786, when Mr. Clerk and I were at Glasgow on our journey to Galloway, we engaged Dr. Irvine to go with us the next summer to the island of Arran, where the doctor had been before, measuring the height of Goatfield.t ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. An examination of the Mineral History of the Island of Arran* In the year 1786, when Mr. Clerk and I were at Glasgow on our journey to Galloway, we engaged Dr. Irvine to go with us the next summer to the island of Arran, where the doctor had been before, measuring the height of Goatfield.t He was to have been our conductor in taking a vessel down the Clyde and visiting several places by the way. Dr. Irvine died in the spring; the weather, to the month of August, was extremely unfavourable; and at that late period, it was not convenient for Mr. Clerk to undertake the journey. I proposed going alone, when Mr. John Clerk, junior, DEGREES was so kind as to offer to accompany me. We set out then * [This chapter is referred to in vol. i, pp. 429> 4 DEGREES7-] t [Now always spelt Goatfell.] J [Afterwards a celebrated advocate, Solicitor-General and Judge in Scotland.--L. H.] directly for Arran by Saltcoats; and it is the lights acquired in this expedition, that I now propose to give in form of a mineral history.* * [Had this chapter been published in Hutton's lifetime, it would have been the first general account of the geology of the island. Since his day many descriptions have appeared, of which the following are the more noteworthy: -- Outline of the Mineralogy of the Shetland Islands and of the Island of Arran. By Robert Jameson 8vo. 1798. Republished with additions and Plates in the same author's Mineralogical Travels through the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland Isles, 4to, two vols., 1800. Vieiv of the Mineralogy, Agriculture, Manufactures, and Fisheries of the Island of Arran. By James Headrick. 8vo. 1807. A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland. By John Macculloch. 8vo. 1819. Vol. ii, p. 309. The Geology of the Isla
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