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REPORT
BY
DR CAVERHILL,
COUNTY MEDICAL OFFICER,
TO
THE COUNTY COUNCIL OF HADDINGTONSHIRE.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
I beg leave to lay before you my
first Report for the year ending 1891.
Size.
The County is of small extent, 279 square miles (an
acreage of 179,142 acres), and measures not more than
24 miles in length. Its greatest breadth is sixteen
miles.
Boundaries.
The Firth of Forth bounds it on the East and
North, while Edinburghshire and the range of the
Lammermuir Hills, separating it from Berwickshire,
complete its boundaries on the West and South respec-
tively.
Some Geological Considerations.
Travelling eastwards from the Edinburghshire Bound-
ary along the coast, one meets with a continuation of the
carboniferous limestone formation and coal measures in
the neighbourhood of Tranent and Prestonpans. Further
East the fine coast section of carboniferous igneous
rocks continues until we reach a narrow belt of calci-
ferous sandstones extending along the valley of the Tyne
westwards, towards West Linton in Peeblesshire. Car-
boniferous limestone is well seen on the shore to the east
of Dunbar, where lime-kilns are in active operation. The
lower calciferous sandstones are met with until Cock-
burnspath is reached, where the old red sandstones are
seen resting on highly inclined Silurian Shales.
The remainder of the County is occupied by grey-
wacke slates and limestone, characteristic of the South
of Scotland uplands. Here and there the felstones have
been "intruded," of which North Berwick Law and
Traprain are the most notable examples. "Their conical
form is entirely due to 'denudation,' though not unlike
volcanic in origin."

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