The Cruise Of The Betsey Or A Summer Ramble Among The Fossilife

Hoy--Unique Scenery--The Dwarfie Stone of Hoy--Sir Walter Scott's Account of it--Its Associations--Inscription of Names--George Buchanan's Consolation--The mythic Carbuncle of t...

Recovered Health--Journey to the Orkneys--Aboard the Steamer at Wick--Mr. Bremner--Masonry of the Harbor of Wick--The greatest Blunders result from good Rules misapplied--Mr. Br...

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'...

The Great Conglomerate--Its Undulatory and Rectilinear Members--Knock Farril and its Vitrified Fort--The old Highlanders an observant race--The Vein of Silver--Summit of Knock F...

Trap-Dykes--"Cotton Apples"--Alternation of Lacustrine with Marine Remains--Analogy from the Beds of Esk--Aspect of the Island on its narrow Front--The Puffin--Ru-Stoir--Develop...

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--Vi...

An Excursion--The Chain of Crosses--Bay of Laig--Island of Rum--Description of the Island--Superstitions banished by pure Religion--Fossil Shells--Remarkable Oyster Bed--New spe...

Relation of the deep red stone of Cromarty to the Ichthyolite Beds of the System--Ruins of a Fossil-charged Bed--Journey to Avoch--Red Dye of the Boulder-clay distinct from the...

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-...

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 Islan...

The Bishop's Palace at Orkney--Haco the Norwegian--Icelandic Chronicle respecting his Expedition to Scotland--His Death--Removal of his Remains to Norway--Why Norwegian Invasion...

Supplementary--Isolated reptile Remains in Eigg--Small Isles revisited--The Betsey again--Storm bound--Tacking--Becalmed--Medusae caught and described--Rain--A Shoal of Porpoise...

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 Fa...

Hills of Orkney--Their Geologic Composition--Scene of Scott's "Pirate"--Stromness--Geology of the District--"Seeking beasts"--Conglomerate in contact with Granite--A palaeozoic...

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...

The Minister's Larder--No Harbor--Eigg Shoes--_Tormentilla erecta_--For the _Witness'_ Sake--Eilean Chaisteil--Appearance of Eigg--Chapel of St. Donan--Shell-sand--Origin of Sec...

Something for Non-geologists--Man Destructive--A Better and Last Creation coming--A Rainy Sabbath--The Meeting House--The Congregation--The Sermon in Gaelic--The Old Wondrous St...

Structure of the Scuir--A stray Column--The Piazza--A buried Pine Forest the Foundation of the Scuir--Geological Poachers in a Fossil Preserve--_Pinites Eiggensis_--Its Descript...

Imaginary Autobiography of the _Clach Malloch_ Boulder--Its Creation--Its long night of unsummed Centuries--Laid open to light on a desert Island--Surrounded by an Arctic Vegeta...

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 sout...

Exploration resumed--Geology of Rasay--An Illustration--Storr of Skye--From Portree to Holm--Discovery of Fossils--An Island Rain--Sir R. Murchison--Labor of drawing a Geologica...

Detached Fossils--Remains of the Pterichthys--Terminal Bones of the Coccosteus, etc., preserved--Internal Skeleton of Coccosteus--The shipwrecked Sailor in the Cave--Bishop Grah...

From Blackpots to Portsoy--Character of the Coast--Burn of Boyne--Fever Phantoms--Graphic Granite--Maupertuis and the Runic Inscription--Explanation of the _quo modo_ of Graphic...

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...

Isle Ornsay--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 Establ...

On Horseback--A pared Moor--Small Landholders--Absorption of small holdings in England and Scotland--Division of Land favorable to Civil and Religious Rights--Favorable to socia...

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-cla...

Preparation--Departure--Recent and Ancient Monstrosities--A Free Church Yacht--Down the Clyde--Jura--Prof. Walker's Experiment--Whirlpool near Scarba--Geological Character of th...

conglomerate which I could not raise from the ground; and ere I said so I had examined no inconsiderable extent of this deposit, chiefly, however, along the eastern coast of Sco...

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 Fa...

Imaginary Autobiography of the _Clach Malloch_ Boulder--Its Creation--Its Long Night of unsummed Centuries--Laid open to light on a desert Island--Surrounded by an Arctic Vegeta...

Recovered Health--Journey to the Orkneys--Aboard the Steamer at Wick--Mr. Bremner--Masonry of the Harbor of Wick--The greatest Blunders result from good Rules misapplied--Mr. Br...

The Great Conglomerate--Its Undulatory and Rectilinear Members--Knock Farril and its Vitrified Fort--The old Highlanders an observant race--The Vein of Silver--Summit of Knock F...

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 sout...

Relation of the deep red stone of Cromarty to the Ichthyolite Beds of the System--Ruins of a Fossil-charged Bed--Journey to Avoch--Red Dye of the Boulder-clay distinct from the...

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...

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-...

Hills of Orkney--Their Geologic Composition--Scene of Scott's "Pirate"--Stromness--Geology of the District--"Seeking beasts"--Conglomerate in contact with Granite--A palaeozoic...

Hoy--Unique Scenery--The Dwarfie Stone of Hoy--Sir Walter Scott's Account of it--Its Associations--Inscription of Names--George Buchanan's Consolation--The mythic Carbuncle of t...

On Horseback--A pared Moor--Small Landholders--Absorption of small holdings in England and Scotland--Division of Land favorable to Civil and Religious Rights--Favorable to socia...

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'...

Detached Fossils--Remains of the Pterichthys--Terminal Bones of the Coccosteus, etc., preserved--Internal Skeleton of Coccosteus--The shipwrecked Sailor in the Cave--Bishop Grah...

From Blackpots to Portsoy--Character of the Coast--Burn of Boyne--Fever Phantoms--Graphic Granite--Maupertuis and the Runic Inscription--Explanation of the _quo modo_ of Graphic...

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-cla...

The Bishop's Palace at Orkney--Haco the Norwegian--Icelandic Chronicle respecting his Expedition to Scotland--His Death--Removal of his Remain to Norway--Why Norwegian Invasion...

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...

Trap-dykes--"Cotton Apples"--Alternation of Lacustrine with Marine Remains--Analogy from the Beds of Esk--Aspect of the Island on its narrow Front--The Puffin--Ru Stoir--Develop...

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 Islan...

The Minister's Larder--No Harbor--Eigg Shoes--_Tormentilla erecta_--For the _Witness'_ Sake--Eilean Chaisteil--Appearance of Eigg--Chapel of St. Donan--Shell-sand--Origin of Sec...

Preparation--Departure--Recent and Ancient Monstrosities--A Free Church Yacht--Down the Clyde--Jura--Prof. Walker's Experiment--Whirlpool near Scarba--Geological Character of th...

Structure of the Scuir--A stray Column--The Piazza--A buried Pine Forest the Foundation of the Scuir--Geological Poachers in a Fossil Preserve--_Pinites Eiggensis_--Its Descript...

Something for Non-geologists--Man Destructive--A Better and Last Creation coming--A Rainy Sabbath--The Meeting House--The Congregation--The Sermon in Gaelic--The Old Wondrous St...

Supplementary--Isolated Reptile Remains in Eigg--Small Isles revisited--The Betsey again--Storm bound--Tacking--Becalmed--Medusae caught and described--Rain--A Shoal of Porpoise...

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 Establ...

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 Geolo...

An Excursion--The Chain of Crosses--Bay of Laig--Island of Rum--Description of the Island--Superstitions banished by pure Religion--Fossil Shells--Remarkable Oyster Bed--New spe...

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--Vi...