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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. 307
CHAPTER V.
Rosemarkie and its Scaurs--Kaes' Craig--A Jackdaw
Settlement--"Rosemarkie Kaes" and "Cromarty Cooties"--"The Danes,"
a Group of Excavations--At Home in Cromarty--The Boulder-clay of
Cromarty "begins to tell its story"--One of its marked Scenic
Peculiarities--Hints to Landscape Painters--"Samuel's Well"--A
Chain of Bogs geologically accounted for--Another Scenic
Peculiarity--"_Ha-has_ of Nature's digging"--The 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. 324
CHAPTER VI.
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
Proportions than those of other Shells accounted for--Boulder-clays
of Scotland 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. Cumming'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. 336
CHAPTER VII.