| Description | Roderick Impey Murchison, fieldbooks & diaries: Northern England, Scotland, August 1863.
5 Aug: To Penrith [Cumberland]; 6 Aug: to Appleby (p1), Burrels (p2), Ormside (p3), Section across the Vale of Eden (p5). Crackenthorpe (p6), Crowdundle Beck (p7), Newbiggin-Kirkby Thore-Kirkby Stephen (p8). Section at Kirkby Stephen (p9). Pooley Bridge (p12). Penrith-Keswick: Derwentwater (p13);
11-13 Aug: Portinscale. Penrith-Cockermouth Railway (p15). Cockermouth Castle - a "Pic-nic". Harrington (p16). St Bees (p18), Bank End (p21);
15 Aug: Furness Abbey (p25). Dalton-in-Furness (p27). Old Man of Coniston (p35). Patterdale Hotel (p36). Penrith-Carlisle.
21 Aug: Carlisle-Dalston-Curthwaite (p38). Carlisle (p43);
22 Aug: Carlisle-Allenheads N'land (p45). Rookhope Co Dur or Weardale Iron Mines (p48), Killhope Moor (p50). Geology at Allenheads N'land (p53);
25 Aug: Allenheads-Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Meeting of the British Association (pp59-64);
4 Sep: Newcastle-upon-Tyne-Alnwick Castle N'land (p65);
7 Sep: Alnwick-Edinburgh (p69). Portobello (p71), Roslyn (p72), Penicuik, Eddleston Bord, Peebles (p73), Edinburgh (p74);
9 Sep: Sir Archibald Geikie (p75);
10 Sep: Edinburgh Waverley-Melrose Bord. Sketch of the Eildon Hills from Dryburgh (p77). Newton St Boswells, Dryburgh Abbey (p78). Newtown St Boswells-Hawick-Liddesdale-Newcastleton-Drumlanrig (p99). Section across Drumlanrig Basin (p104). RIM's plans to return to Belgrave Sq, London (pp106-107), instead goes via Penrith-Appleby-Kirkby-Stephen-Barnard Castle to Castle Raby (p109). Castle Raby (pp109-113).
Rest of book empty, except a couple of unintelligible notes (pp141-145) and a French list (p146). |