Chapter 15

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 the Deveron--Dr. Emslie's Fossils--_Pterichthys quadratus_--Argillaceous Deposits of Blackpots--Pipe-laying in Scotland--Fossils of Blackpots Clay--Mr. Longmuir's Description of them--Blackpots Deposit a Re-formation of a Liasic Patch--Period of its Formation. 270