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Photographers at the Blackford Hill
Balmain, James C. H., 1890, Photograph
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Photographers at the Blackford Hill
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Photographers at the Blackford Hill
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A group of early photographers are seated in a circle on tree trunks beside their large format cameras on tripods.
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Balmain, James C. H.
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1890
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Blackford Hill was formed from the oldest rock in Edinburgh and offers impressive panoramic views of the city, the Pentland Hills and Firth of Forth. Enthusiastic geologists love this place as it is full of significant hotspots to study rock formation. In 1840 the Swiss geologist Louis Agassiz declared the grooves in the rocks of Blackford Quarry were caused by glaciers and this was the start of a whole new chapter of geological study in Scotland .
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