| Description | Roderick Impey Murchison, fieldbooks & diaries: Northern England and Scotland
June 1826 “Northumberland to the Hebrides” (76pp): June 1826, Welden Bridge [N’land]. Stockton-on-Tees [Cleve], Sedgefield [Co. Du], Coxhoe, Newbottle [T & W], Sunderland, Durham [Co. Du], Morpeth [N’land], Welden Bridge, Horsley [sic; Longhorseley ?], r. Coquet (3). Coupland Castle, Wooler (4), Whittingham, Breamish r. (5), Coupland, Milfield Hill (6), the Cheviot (7), Yeavering Bell (8), College Burn, Kirk Newton (9), Coupland Castle, ford (10), Barmoor, Lowick, Kyloe, Belford, Bamburgh Castle (13), Farne Islands, Kyloe, Barmor, Coupland (14). 20 June: Coupland, r. Tweed, Coldstream [Bord] (15), Kelso, Whiteburn Inn [nr Lauder], Soutra Hills, Lauderdale (17), Costerton [Loth], Newbattle, Dalkeith (18). 21 June: Edinburgh. With Prof. Jameson (19). Sketch of Calton Hill (20), Arthur’s Seat (24), sketch of geology of Arthur’s Seat (24); Arran [Strathc] (pp. 33-51). Vale of Brodick, Lamlash, whiting Bay, Holy Isle, Clanchlands Point (33), pencil sketch of Corrygills Bay (34), Brodick Bay (35). Brodick to Drumadoon Bay, Tormore, etc. (36). Pen section of Blackwater (38); Brodick to Lochranza and back, Brodick Castle (43), N. Sannox (46), sketch of Cock of Arran (48), Newton Bay, Lochranza (49); 29 [sic: 27?] June: Bute – Rothesay. Ascog (52), Loch Ascog (53). Bute – Mull. From Rothesay via Kyles of Bute, Loch Fyne, W. [sic: E ?] Tarbert on the ‘Maid of Isla’ (56). Re-embarked on W. Side of isthmus: Passed Corryvrekan Str., Oban (67), Aros, Loch na Keal, Staffa (58), Knock on Loch na Keal, Balnahard (61), Balmeanach (62); Sunday”: Hills W. Of Knock (64).; “Monday”: Loch Ba, Loch Scridain, Bunessan (64), Ardtun (67), Iona (68 – “Ten words on antiquities”), Bunessan (69). Section of the coalfield at Clyde iron works. |