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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. 192
CHAPTER XII.
Ichthyolite Beds of Clune and Lethenbarn--Limestone
Quarry--Destruction of Urns and Sarcophagi in the
Lime-kiln--Nodules opened--Beautiful coloring of the
Remains--Patrick Duff's Description--New Genus of Morayshire
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--Description 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--Varieties of pattern--The
Diker's "Carved Flowers"--_Stagonolepis_, a new Genus--Termination
of the Ramble. 212
CHAPTER XIII.
SUPPLEMENTARY.
Supplementary--Isolated Reptile Remains in Eigg--Small Isles
revisited--The Betsey again--Storm bound--Tacking--Becalmed--Medusae
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--Hybodus Teeth--Discovery of
reptile Remains _in situ_--Musical Sand of Laig
re-examined--Explanation suggested--Sail for Isle Ornsay--Anchored
Clouds--A Leak sprung--Peril of the Betsey--At work with Pump and
Pails--Safe in Harbor--Return to Edinburgh. 233
PART II.
RAMBLES OF A GEOLOGIST.
CHAPTER I.