Whinstone

Abstract: On the north side of the Dumbarton Road, near Whiteinch and Partick, there is to be seen in the Lower Balshagray grounds a small ridge or knoll running east and west, crowned by a group of stately trees rising above the level tract of land, which here to the north bounds the river Clyde, its height above the present' sea-level varying from 20 to 25 feet. The ridge is composed in its upper part of beds of intrusive dolerite, which are here seen to be intercalated with Carboniferous sandstones and shales, the igneous rock being traceable westwards for nearly two miles, when it again disappears under the overlying strata of the district. The knoll now lies within the area of ground rented by the burghs of Partick and Whiteinch as a public park, and is at its south-western extremity. In former years, a quarry had been opened in the upper bed of dolerite, the rock being used for macadamizing purposes on the neighbouring roads. Since it came into the hands of the Partick and Whiteinch Commissioners, a great deal of work has been expended in dressing up and planting the rocky slopes of the old quarry; and while employed last winter in cutting a road along the hollow of the quarry, the workmen exposed the strata in which a number of fossil trees were found to be embedded. These strata underlie the upper bed of dolerite now largely quarried away, and consist of gray sandy shales, flaggy sandstones, and dark This 250-word extract was created in the absence of an abstract