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Quarries Geological Science in Cromarty -The Danes at Cromarty — The

Danish Professor and the "Old Red Sandstone" — Harmonizing Tendencies

Ichthyolite Beds An interesting Discovery - Two Storeys of Organic Remains

in the Old Red Sandstone Ancient Ocean of Lower Old Red
Two great

Catastrophes Ancient Fish Scales Their skilful Mechanism displayed by

examples - Bone Lips Arts of the Slater and Tiler as old as Old Red

Sandstone Jet Trinkets - Flint Arrow-heads Vitrified Forts of Scotland

— Style of grouping Lower Old Red Fossils - Illustration from Cromarty

Fishing Phenomena - Singular Remains of Holoptychius - Ramble with Mr.

Robert Dick- Color of the Planet Mars Tombs never dreamed of by

Hervey - Skeleton of the Bruce - Gigantic Holoptychius "Coal money

Currency "- Upper Boundary of Lower Old Red - Every one may add to the

Store of Geological Facts Discoveries of Messrs. Dick and Peach.

Ichthyolite Beds of Clune and Lethenbarn

Limestone Quarry

of Urns and Sarcophagi in the Lime-kiln-Nodules opened Beautiful

coloring of the Remains - Patrick Duff's Description - New Genus of Moray-

shire Ichthyolite described - Form and size of the Nodules or Stone Coffins —

Illustration from Mrs. Marshall's Cements - Forest of Darnaway The Hill

of Berries Sluie Elgin - Outliers of the Weald and the Oolite - Descrip-

tion of the Weald at Linksfield - Mr. Duff's Lepidotus minor - Eccentric

Types of Fish Scales - Visit to the Sandstones of Scat-Craig - Fine suit of

Fossils at Scat-Craig True graveyard Bones, not mere Impressions - Va-

rieties of pattern The Diker's "Carved Flowers "- Stagonolepis, a new

Genus Termination of the Ramble.

Supplementary - Isolated Reptile Remains in Eigg

Small Isles revisited - The

Betsey again - Storm bound - Tacking- Becalmed Medusæ caught and

described Rain - - A Shoal of Porpoises - Change of Weather The bed-

ridden Woman The Poor Law Act for Scotland Geological Excursion

Basaltic Columns Oolitic Beds - Abundance of Organic Remains - Hybo-

dus Teeth - Discovery of reptile Remains in situ

re-examined-Explanation suggested Sail for

Clouds- - A Leak sprung - Peril of the Betsey

Pails Safe in Harbor Return to Edinburgh.

Musical Sand of Laig

Isle Ornsay- Anchored

At work with Pump and

RAMBLES OF A GEOLOGIST.

Embarkation -A foundered Vessel - Lateness of the Harvest dependent on the

Geological character of the Soil-A Granite Harvest and an Old Red Harvest

-Cottages of Redstone and of Granite - Arable Soil of Scotland the result

of a Geological Grinding Agency Locality of the Famine of 1846 - Mr.

Longmuir's Fossils - Geology necessary to a Theologian Popularizers of

Science when dangerous "Constitution of Man," and "Vestiges of Crea-

tion" - Atop of the Banff Coach A Geologist's Field Equipment — The

trespassing"Stirk " — Silurian Schists inlaid with Old Red Bay of Gamrie

how formed Gardenstone - Geological Free-masonry illustrated How to

break an Ichthyolite Nodule - An old Rhyme mended A raised Beach

Fossil Shells Scotland under Water at the time of the Boulder-clays. 255

Character of the Rocks near Gardenstone - A Defunct Father-lasher A Geo-

logical Inference Village of Gardenstone- The drunken Scot -Garden-

stone Inn Lord Gardenstone - A Tempest threatened The Author's

Ghost Story The Lady in Green Her Appearance and Tricks - The Res-

cued Children The murdered Peddler and his Pack Where the Green

Dress came from Village of Macduff Peculiar Appearance of the Beach

at the Mouth of the Deveron Dr. Emslie's Fossils Pterichthys quadratus

Argillaceous Deposits of Blackpots - Pipe-laying in Scotland

Blackpots Clay - Mr. Longmuir's Description of them - Blackpots Deposit a

Re-formation of a Liasic Patch Period of its Formation.

Character of the Coast

From Blackpots to Portsoy

Burn of Boyne Fever

Phantoms - Graphic Granite - Maupertuis and the Runic Inscription -

Explanation of the quo modo of Graphic Granite - Portsoy Inn Serpentine

Beds - Portsoy Serpentine unrivalled for small ornaments Description of

it Significance of the term serpentine Elizabeth Bond and her "Letters ''

From Portsoy to Cullen - Attritive Power of the Ocean illustrated The

Equinoctial - From Cullen to Fochabers - The Old Red again - The old

Pensioner - Fochabers Mr. Joss, the learned Mail-guard - The Editor a

sort of Coach-guard On the Coach to Elgin - Geology of Banffshire

Irregular paging of the Geologic Leaves - Geologic Map of the County like

Joseph's Coat - Striking Illustration.

Yellow-hued Houses of Elgin - Geology of the Country indicated by the coloring

of the Stone Houses Fossils of Old Red north of the Grampians different

from those of Old Red south - Geologic Formations at Linksfield difficult

to be understood Ganoid Scales of the Wealden Sudden Reaction, from

complex to simple, in the Scales of Fishes · Pore-covered Scales Extraor-

dinary amount of Design exhibited in Ancient Ganoid Scales Holoptychius

Scale illustrated by Cromwell's "fluted pot" Patrick Duff's Geological

Collection - Elgin Museum Fishes of the Ganges - Armature of Ancient

Fishes Compensatory Defences - The Hermit-crab - Spines of the Pime-

Ride to Campbelton - Theories of the formation of Ardersier and

Fortrose Promontories Tradition of their construction by the Wizard,

Michael Scott A Region of Legendary Lore.

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Rosemarkie and its Scaurs

A Jackdaw Settlement - "Rose-

markie Kaes" and "Cromarty Cooties"-"The Danes," a Group of Ex-

cavations At Home in Cromarty- The Boulder-clay of Cromarty "begins

to tell its story " One of its marked Scenic Peculiarities - Hints to Land-

-"Samuel's Well "A Chain of Bogs geologically accounted

for Another Scenic Peculiarity "Ha-has of Nature's digging"

Author's earliest Field of Hard Labor - Picturesque Cliff of Boulder-clay

Scratchings on the Sandstone Invariable Characteristic of true Boulder-

clay-Scratchings on Pebbles in the line of the longer axis-Illustration from

the Boulder-clay of Banff.

Organisms of the Boulder-clay not unequivocal — First Impressions of the

Boulder-clay-Difficulty of accounting for its barrenness of Remains Sir

Charles Lyell's reasoning — A Fact to the contrary Human Skull dug from

a Clay-bank The Author's Change of Belief respecting Organic Remains

of the Boulder-clay Shells from the Clay at Wick Questions respecting

them settled - Conclusions confirmed by Mr. Dick's Discoveries at Thurso

Sir John Sinclair's Discovery of Boulder-clay Shells in 1802 - Comminution

of the Shells illustrated Cyprina islandica - Its Preservation in larger Pro-

portions than those of other Shells accounted for - Boulder-clays of Scot-

land reformed during the existing Geological Epoch - Scotland in the Period

of the Boulder-clay "merely three detached groups of Islands” — Evidence

of the Subsidence of the Land in Scotland Confirmed by Rev. Mr. Cum-

ming's conclusion - High-lying Granite Boulders - Marks of a succeeding

elevatory Period - Scandinavia now rising Autobiography of a Boulder

desirable A Story of the Supernatural.

Relation of the deep red stone of Cromarty to the Ichthyolite Beds of the System

Ruins of a Fossil-charged Bed - Journey to Avoch Red Dye of the

Boulder-clay distinct from the substance itself — Variation of Coloring in the

Boulder-clay Red Sandstone accounted for Hard-pan how formed - A

reformed Garden - An ancient Battle-field-Antiquity of Geologic and

Human History compared - Burn of Killein Observation made in boy-

hood confirmed Fossil-nodules Fine Specimen of Coccosteus decipiens

- Blank strata of Old Red - New View respecting the Rocks of Black Isle-

A Trip up Moray and Dingwall Friths Altered color of the Boulder-clay -

Up the Auldgrande River - Scenery of the great Conglomerate - Graphic

Description - Laidlaw's Boulder Vaccinium myrtillus Profusion of Trav-

The Boulder Clach Malloch Its zones of Animal and Vege-

Imaginary Autobiography of the Clach Malloch Boulder Its Creation

Long Night of unsummed Centuries- Laid open to light on a desert Island

-Surrounded by an Arctic Vegetation Undermined by the rising Sea-

Locked up and floated off on an Ice-field-At rest on the Sea-bottom

Another Night of unsummed Years - The Boulder raised again above the

waves by the rising of the Land Beholds an Altered Country - Pine For-

ests and Mammals · Another Period of Ages passes The Boulder again

floated off by an Iceberg — Finally at rest on the Shore of Cromarty Bay-

Time and Occasion of naming it-Strange Phenomena accounted for by Earth-

quakes - How the Boulder of Petty Bay was moved The Boulder of Auld-

grande - The old Highland Paupers - The little Parsi Girl Her Letter to

her Papa - But one Human Nature on Earth Journey resumed

An aged Couple - Gossip.

The Great Conglomerate — Its Undulatory and Rectilinear Members Knock

Farril and its Vitrified Fort The old Highlanders an observant race - The

Vein of Silver Summit of Knock Farril Mode of accounting for the

Luxuriance of Herbage in the ancient Scottish Fortalices - The green Graves

of Culloden Theories respecting the Vitrification of the Hill-forts Com-

bined Theories of Williams and Mackenzie probably give the correct account

-The Author's Explanation-Transformations of Fused Rocks-Strathpeffer

-The Spa
Permanent Odoriferous Qualities of an ancient Sea-bottom con-

verted into Rock - Mineral Springs of the Spa - Infusion of the powdered

rock a substitute Belemnite Water- The lively young Lady's Comments

-A befogged Country seen from a hill-top Ben-Wyvis - Journey to

Evanton - A Geologist's Night-mare The Route Home - Ruins of Craig

house - Incompatibility of Tea and Ghosts - End of the Tour.

Recovered Health Journey to the Orkneys-Aboard the Steamer at Wick

- Mr. Bremner Masonry of the Harbor of Wick The greatest Blunders

result from good Rules misapplied Mr. Bremner's Theory about sea-washed

Masonry Singular Fracture of the Rock near Wick - The Author's mode

of accounting for it "Simple but not obvious" Thinking— Mr. Bremner's

mode of making stone Erections under Water- His exploits in raising

foundered Vessels Aspect of the Orkneys - The ungracious Schoolmaster

In the Frith of Kirkwall Cathedral of St Magnus Appearance of

Kirkwall-Its "perished suppers" Its ancient Palaces Blunder of the

Scotch Aristocracy The patronate Wedge - Breaking Ground in Orkney —

Minute Gregarious Coccosteus True Position of the Coccosteus' Eyes

Ruins of one of Cromwell's Forts - Antiquities of Orkney — The Cathedral

Its Sculptures - The Mysterious Cell - Prospect from the Tower - Its

Chimes Ruins of Castle Patrick.
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