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Field-day at Campsie; being notes on the joint excursion of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Societies to Campsie Glen, Dunglass Hill, and the Spout of Ballagan on Saturday, 5th June 1869

Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, 1, 355-359, 1870, https://doi.org/10.1144/transed.1.3.355
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On Saturday morning, the 5th June, a few of the members of this Society proceeded by the North British Railway to Cowlairs station, near Glasgow, where they were met by members of the Glasgow Geological Society. They proceeded by train to Campsie Glen station, and from that place to the old village called the ‶Clachan of Campsie,″ which lies in a beautiful situation near the foot of the glen. The party then explored Campsie Glen, and examined the geological phenomena therein displayed, returning to the Clachan Inn, where a substantial breakfast was provided by the Glasgow Geological Society for their friends and guests from Edinburgh. During breakfast mutual good wishes were interchanged between the Societies. The party afterwards visited Dunglass Hill and the Spout of Ballagan, under the guidance of Mr John Young, of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, one of the associates of this Society, who pointed out in detail the principal geological features of the district.

General description of district visited.—The district of Campsie is situated in the south-western portion of Stirlingshire, and on the north-western margin of the Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire coalfield. Its northern boundary consists of a long chain of trappean hills, which extend in a north-eastern direction from near Dumbarton on the Clyde to within a mile or two of the town of Stirling, and are known as the Lennox range of hills, or the ‶Campsie Fells,″ the highest points in the range being the ‶Earl’s Seat″ and the ‶Meikle Bin″—the former 1898, and the latter

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