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May 1. Union between Scotland and England, commenced 1707.

9. Jamaica taken by the English, 1655.

12. Court of Session meets.

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Scots Magazine,

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EDINBURGH LITERARY MISCELLANY,

FOR APRIL 1808.

Description of DREGHORN CASTLE.

With a View.

THE frontispiece to this Magazine exhibits a view of that splendid mansion, Dreghorn Castle, the residence of Alex. Trotter, Esq. late of the Navy Pay Office. It lies about

four miles to the south-west of Edin

burgh, and is built upon a Gothic design by that eminent architect Mr Elliot.

The part completed is, we have been informed, only about a fourth part of the original and complete plan. Some part of the old edifice is still remaining, as will be observed in the plate.

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ces, acclivities and summits of single mountains, and also the characters of mountain ranges and mountaingroupes: and the colouring affords a true and harmonious representation of the alternation, extent, and relative position of the different rocks that appear at the surface. Professor Jameson at the same time laid before the Society a series of Mineralogical Queries which he had drawn up, with the view of directing the attention of mineralogists to the particular objects pointed out by them.

Having been favoured with a copy of these queries, we shall here communicate them to our readers.

MINERALOGICAL QUERIES.
England.

1. Does the granite of Cornwall belong to the oldest or the newest granite formation; or do both formations occur in that county?

2. Is the shorl-rock of Cornwall disposed in an unconformable and overlying position, in regard to the older primitive rocks; if this be its position, on what rock or rocks does it rest, and what are its other geognostic relations?

3. Does the serpentine of Cornwall belong to the first or second ser

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