-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.

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 t