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The Cruise of the Betsey: or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland — John Shaqi

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The Cruise of the Betsey: or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland

Name: The Cruise of the Betsey: or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
Author: Miller, Hugh

Miller, Hugh

Geology -- Scotland

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 Creation"--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


CHAPTER II.

     Character of the Rocks near Gardenstone--A Defunct Father-lasher--A
     Geological Inference--Village of Gardenstone--The drunken
     Scot--Gardenstone Inn--Lord Gardenstone--A Tempest threatened--The
     Author's Ghost Story--The Lady in Green--Her Appearance and
     Tricks--The Rescued 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--Fossils of Blackpots Clay--Mr.
     Longmuir's Description of them--Blackpots Deposit a Re-formation of
     a Liasic Patch--Period of its Formation.                         270


CHAPTER III.

     From Blackpots to Portsoy--Character of the Coast--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.         291


CHAPTER IV.

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