altogether,--yonder elevating the original granitic _hard-cast_ till it rose over all the coatings, Primary and Palaeozoic. And then I have begun to paint yet a third time with thick Old Red Sandstone pigment; and yet again to break up and wear down,--here to insert a tenon of the Old Red deep into a mortise of the grauwacke, as at Gamrie,--there to dovetail it into the clay-slate, as at Tomantoul,--yonder, after laying it across the upturned quartz-rock, as at Cullen, to rub by much the greater part of it away again, leaving but mere remainder-patches and fragments, to mark where it had been. Lastly, if I had none of the superior Palaeozoic or Secondary formations to deal with, I have brushed over the whole, by way of finish, with the variously-derived coatings of the superficial deposits; and thus, as I have said, I have often completed, in idea, after the chance suggestion of the old painter's shop, my portable models of the geology of disturbed districts like the Banffshire one. The deposits of Moray are greatly less broken. Denudation has partially worn them down; but they seem to have almost wholly escaped the previous crumpling process. CHAPTER IV. 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--Extraordinary 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 Pimelodi--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.