A treatise on the external characters of minerals / [Robert Jameson].

  • Robert Jameson
Date:
[1805]
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Credit: A treatise on the external characters of minerals / [Robert Jameson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The Duke of Buccleugh, with his ufual patriotic attention to the interefts of Dum- fries-fhire, propofed fome years ago to the landholders of the county to have a Map of it made for their ufe ; and, with the approbation of his Grace, Colonel, now Brigadier-General Dirom of Mount Annan, fuggefted that a Mineral furvey fliould alfo be made of the county, in order to connedl a knowledge of its foffils and internal ftru&ure with the land fur- vey which was then carrying on by Mr* William Crawford, u The meeting unanimoufly approved u of the propofai for the mineral furvey, a and voted their thanks to his Grace the “ Duke of Buccleugh for having been €C pleafed to recommend it to their atten- tc tion ; and to Colonel Dirom for having <c brought forward a plan fo likely to be <c ufeful to the county.” Upon that occafion 1 was applied to by the General and by Colonel Wight