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

Chapter 12

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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