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II.— On the supposed Upheaval of Scotland in its Central Parts since the time of the Roman Occupation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

Extract

Sir Charles Lyell, in the 3d edition of his “ Antiquity of Man,” published in 1863, makes the following statement:—

“Until lately, it was confidently assumed, that no alteration had. occurred in the relative levels of land and sea, in the central district of Scotland, since the construction of the Roman or Pictish wall (the wall of Antonine), which reached from the Firth of Forth to that of the Clyde.”

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1873

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page 49 note * Rev. Mr Tait, in his paper on Peat Mosses in Perthshire, puhlished in Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. vol. iii. p. 276, mentions, that seventy yards of this road were traced through the moss, and was about twelve feet wide ; see also New Stat. Account of Parish of Kincardine.