--Poetical revenge--Johnstone the forester, 129

CHAPTER VIII.

Choice of a calling--Disappointment to relatives--Old Red Sandstone
quarry--Depression and walking-sleep--Temptations of
toil--Friendship with William Ross, 151

CHAPTER IX.

Life in the bothie--Mad Bell--Mournful history--Singular
intimacy--Manners and customs of north-country masons, 173

CHAPTER X.

Evening walks--Lines on a sun-dial--A haunted stream--Insect
transformations--Jock Moghoal--Musings, 195

CHAPTER XI.

An antiquary in humble life--Poor Danie--Proficiency in
porridge-making--Depressed health--A good omen--Close of
apprenticeship, 219

CHAPTER XII.

Swimming the Conon--Click-Clack the carter--Loch Maree--Fitting
up a barrack--Highland characteristics, 245

CHAPTER XIII.

The Brothers Fraser--Flora of the Northern Hebrides--Diving in
the Gareloch--Sabbaths in Flowerdale woods--Causes of
Highland distress, 268

CHAPTER XIV.

A cragsman's death--Providential escape--Property in Leith--First
sight of Edinburgh--Peter M'Craw--Niddry Woods--Researches
among the Coal Measures, 296

CHAPTER XV.

A worthy Seceder--The hero of the squad--Apology for
fanaticism--Strikes--Recollections of the theatre, 321

CHAPTER XVI.

Great fires in Edinburgh--Dr. Colquhoun--Dr. M'Crie--Return to
the North--Stanzas written at sea--Geological dreams, 348

CHAPTER XVII.

Religious phases--True centre of Christianity--Bearing of geology
upon theological belief--Delicate health--A gipsy wedding, 373

CHAPTER XVIII.

Convalescence--Pursuit of algeology--Jock Gordon--Theory of
idiocy--Mr. Stewart of Cromarty, 395

CHAPTER XIX.

Stone-cutting at Inverness--A jilted lover--The _Osars_--Death
of Uncle James--Farewell letter from William Ross, 416

CHAPTER XX.

Publication of poems--Newspaper criticisms--Walsh the
lecturer--Enlarged circle of friends--Miss Dunbar of Boath, 435

CHAPTER XXI.

Arenaceous formations--Antiquity of the earth--Tremendous
hurricane--_Loligo Vulgare_--Researches amid the
Lias--Interesting discoveries, 457