Volume 2

Historical and statistical account of Dunfermline / By the Rev. Peter Chalmers.

  • Chalmers, Peter, 1790?-1870.
Date:
1844-1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Historical and statistical account of Dunfermline / By the Rev. Peter Chalmers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    COLLIERIES. Page Elgin alien Mr Grier, Manager—Details, : : . 17-83 Wellwood Colliery—Mr Spowart, one of the Lessees, and Matapents Details, ete : . 83-92 Townhill and Whitefield Coliées—Mr i Christie, Lene: : . 92-96 Halbeath and Cuttlehill Collieries—Messrs Henderson, Wallace, & Co., Lessees and Managers—Details—Table of trial of Cuttlehill Coal at Woolwich, with various other Coals in England, and two in Scotland, 96-104 Statistical Table in regard to the Collieries in the parish of Dunferm- line, June 1857, and Explanatory Note as to the Elgin Coal-field by the Manager, Mr Grier, : : , : y . 105-6 LIME, TRAP, FREESTONE QUARRIES, AND IRONSTONE PITS. Charlestown Limestone—Details as to workings—Remains—Roscobie Limestone—Details—Craigluscar and Sunnybank Limestone, “not now wrought for public sale—Trap Rocks, Outh, Redcraigs, Wood- hill—Freestone, North Urquhart, Berrylaw, Milesmark, Pitten- crieff—F ossil Remains—Ironstone—Pittencrieff and North Lethans Pits, . , , 106-110 West of Fife Mineral Railwoy —is course dcsorlbad and projected ex- tension, : : ; 1J0-111 Inchgarvie, Long-craig, Dhu- -craig, Craig-murmur, Bitar Islands— Garvies—Seafowl—Crespais~Small and large Whales in the Firth in early and recent times, . i : ; : 111-138 SECTION IV. BOTANY. Additional Rare Plants found on the hills at North Queensferry, ae the shore west from the Ferry, : ‘ : ‘ 114 SECTION V. CIVIL HISTORY. Number of Royal Charters, and by what mip in favour of Dunferm- line in its Chartulary, ‘ : oe Lid Dr E. Henderson—Testimonies to his powers of ealenttaaton; : . 115-16 Bleau’s Atlas—[The translation of a paragraph in the Introduction of the Atlas promised for Appendix, No. 1, omitted, but unnecessary, ] Editions of Atlas—Its peculiarities of orthography, and derivations of names of places in Dunfermline—St Margaret’s Well—Ordnance Plan of Dunfermline—Swan’s “ Views of Fife”—Beattie’s “ Scot- land Illustrated ”—-M‘Farlane’s “ Night Lamp ”—Billings’ “ Anti- quities of Scotland,” all having views of Dunfermline, &c., ; 115-19