Byreburn, a mining locality on the mutual border of Langholm and Canonbie parishes, Dumfriesshire. Coal of a peculiar quality, intermediate between slate and pitch coal, is worked here; and a sandstone of greyishwhite and yellowish-grey colour, with many vegetable moulds or fossils, is associated with the coal.
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