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Exploration resumed--Geology of Rasay--An Illustration--The Storr
of Skye--From Portree to Holm--Discovery of Fossils--An Island
Rain--Sir R. Murchison--Labor of Drawing a Geological Line--Three
Edinburgh Gentlemen--_Prosopolepsia_--Wrong Surmises corrected--The
Mail Gig--The Portree Postmaster--Isle Ornsay--An Old
Acquaintance--Reminiscences--A Run for Rum--"Semi-fossil
Madeira"--Idling on Deck--Prognostics of a Storm--Description of
the Gale--Loch Scresort--The Minister's lost _Sou-wester_--The Free
Church Gathering--The weary Minister. 123
CHAPTER VIII.
Geology of Rum--Its curious Character illustrated--Rum famous for
Bloodstones--Red Sandstones--"Scratchings" in the Rocks--A
Geological Inscription without a Key--The Lizard--Vitality broken
into two--Illustrations--Speculation--Scuir More--Ascent of the
Scuir--The Bloodstones--An Illustrative Set of the Gem--M'Culloch's
Pebble--A Chemical Problem--The solitary Shepherd's House--Sheep
_versus_ Men--The Depopulation of Rum--A Haul of Trout--Rum Mode of
catching Trout--At Anchor in the Bay of Glenelg. 139
CHAPTER IX.
Kyles of Skye--A Gneiss District--Kyle Rhea--A Boiling Tide--A
"Take" of Sillocks--The Betsey's "Paces"--In the Bay at
Broadford--Rain--Island of Pabba--Description of the Island--Its
Geological Structure--Astrea--Polypifers--_Gryphoea
incurva_--Three Groups of Fossils in the Lias of Skye--Abundance of
the Petrifactions of Pabba--Scenery--Pabba a "piece of smooth,
level England"--Fossil Shells of Pabba--- Voyage resumed--Kyle
Akin--Ruins of Castle Maoil--A "Thornback" Dinner--The Bunch of
Deep Sea Tangle--The Caileach Stone--Kelp Furnaces--Escape of the
Betsey from sinking. 159
CHAPTER X.
Isle Orusay--The Sabbath--A Sailor-minister's Sermon for
Sailors--The Scuir Sermon--Loch Carron--Groups of Moraines--A sheep
District--The Editor of the _Witness_ and the Establishment
Clergyman--Dingwall--Conon-side revisited--The Pond and its
Changes--New Faces.--The Stonemason's Mark--The Burying-ground of
Urquhart--An old Acquaintance--Property Qualification for Voting in
Scotland--Montgerald Sandstone Quarries--Geological Science in
Cromarty--The Danes at Cromarty--The Danish Professor and the "Old
Red Sandstone"--Harmonizing Tendencies of Science. 178
CHAPTER XI.