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Fig. 1. Granite Weathering along its joints near the top of
Ben-na-Chie, Aberdeenshire 17
Fig. 2. Spheroidal Weathering of Dolerite, North
Queensferry 19
Fig. 3. Rain-eroded Pillars of Old Red Conglomerate and
Boulder-Clay, Fochabers 20
Fig. 4. Sand-dunes near Durness 22
Fig. 5. Gullies and Ravines at the head of Glenkip Burn,
Leadhills 26
Fig. 6. Chemical action of a stream on limestone, Durness,
Sutherland 31
Fig. 7. Flagstone Cliffs, Holburn Head, Caithness 43
Fig. 8. Flagstone Cliffs, Brough of Birsa, Orkney 44
Fig. 9. View of the Buller of Buchan from the land side 46
Fig. 10. Part of the Sea-Cliffs of Berwickshire-Curved Silurian
Rocks 49
Fig. 11. Brig o' Trams, Wick 63
Fig. 12. Stacks of Duncansby, Caithness. Old Red Sandstone
65
Fig 13. The Old Man of Hoy, Orkney 66
Fig. 14. Noss Head, Shetland 69
Fig. 15. Cliffs of Archean Gneiss, with pink pegmatite veins,
Cape Wrath 73
Fig. 16. Macleod's Maidens and the basalt cliffs of the west of
Skye 75
Fig. 17. Inclined Silurian strata near Girvan 78
Fig. 18. View of the Glaciers at the head of the Nus Fjord,
Northern Norway 84
Fig. 19. View of the Highland Table-land from above Gourock, on
the Clyde 104
Fig. 20. Ben Leagach, Glen Torridon 115
Fig. 21. Ordinary Unaltered Red Sandstone (Cambrian), Keeshorn,
Ross-shire (magnified) 119
Fig. 22. Sheared Red Sandstone forming flow a Micaceous Schist,
Keeshorn, Ross-shire 119
Fig. 23. View of. the Highland Table -land from above Dalwhinnie,
looking westward 131
Fig. 24. View of the highest group of the Grampians from the
south 133
Fig. 25. Section of the Grampian Range from Inverness to
Kirriemuir 134
Fig. 26. Diagrammatic section-of Ben Lawers 135
Fig. 27. Section of Morven, Caithness 139
Fig. 28. View of Ben Griam, Sutherland 140
Fig. 29. Craig Beinn-nan-Eun, east of Uarn Var (Uarnh Mhbr, Big
Cave) 142
Fig. 30. Section across the boundary fault of the Highlands at
Glen Turri, Perthshire 143
Fig. 31. View of Ben More, Mull, from the south side of Loch
Scriden 145
Fig. 32. MacleOd's Tables, Skye 146
Fig. 33. Ben ladain, Morven 147
Fig. 34. Section across Loch Scriden, Mull 148
Fig. 35. View of the Scuir of Eigg from the east 150
Fig. 36. Section of west end of Scuir of Eigg 151
Fig. 37. Corry on northern front of Lochnagar 165
Fig. 38. The Black Rock of Novar, Cromarty Firth 175
Fig. 39. Gorge of the Ericht, above Blairgowrie 177
Fig. 40. View from the Ridge of Suidhe Fhearghas (Fergus Seat),
Arran 180
Fig. 41. Head of Loch Duich 183
Fig. 42. View across the West Highland Plateau from the top of
Ben ladain, Morven 197
Fig. 43. View of the Cambrian Mountains of Sutherland and
Ross 203
Fig. 44. An Tealiach, Durrclonakl, Ross-shire 206
Fig. 45. Outline of Shiehallien 207
Fig. 46. BUChaille-EtiVe (the Herdsman of Etive), from the
east 212
Fig. 47. View of a portion of the basalt plateau, [sic o
Eigg 217
Fig. 48. View of the south side of Staffa 219
Fig. 49. Section showing the structure of the basins of the Lakes
of the Plains 227
Fig. 50. Section showing the structure of a Moraine Lake
228
Fig. 51. Section showing the structure of a Rock-Tam 229
Fig. 52. Part of the Island of Lewis 239
Fig. 53. Section across Loch Morar 240
Fig. 54. Ice-worn rocks, Rispond, Sutherland 243
Fig. 55. Ice-worn rocks near summit of Barone Hill, Bute 247
Fig. 56. Ice-worn Knolls and Perched Blocks, Loch Torridon
258
Fig. 57. Perched Blocks on ice-worn hummocks of gneiss between
Loch Laxfórd and Richonich, Sutherland 259
Fig. 58. View from the lower end of Loch Treig looking across
Glen Spean 264
Fig. 59. View of the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy from the
Gap 266
Fig. 60. Terraces at Auchnasheen 269
Fig. 61. Moraines, Glen Cloy, Arran 275
Fig. 62. Ice-worn islets in Loch Fyne 277
Fig. 63. Curved Silurian Strata, coast of Berwickshire 283
Fig. 64. Curved and Cleaved Silurian Rocks, Wigtownshire
284
Fig. 65. Section across the Sanquhar Coal-field 285
Fig. 66. The Manor Water, seen from the top of Cademuir, south of
Peebles 290
Fig. 67. Outline of the Southern Uplands, seen from above the
Village of Barr in Southern Ayrshire 292
Fig. 68. Tertiary dyke crossing the Glengap Burn, near Moffat 310
Fig. 69. The Baron's Stone of Killochan 315
Fig. 70. Sectional view of Loch Skene, Dumfriesshire 317
Fig. 71. Loch Skene, Dumfriesshire 319
Fig. 72. Map of Tertiary Dykes near Muirkirk, Ayrshire 331
Fig. 73. Dykes traversing jointed volcanic tuff, Shore, Elie,
Fife 332
Fig. 74. Largo Law, Fife 334
Fig. 75. Section across the Clackrnannan Coal-field 335
Fig. 76. Section to illustrate the denudaf:ion of the Pentland
Hills 341
Fig. 77. View of the Firth of Tay from Moncrieffe Hill 342
Fig. 78. Section across the Firth of Tay 343
Fig. 79. Cora Linn, Falls of Clyde 350
Fig. 80. Section of Volcanic Neck 354
Fig. 81. The Bass Rock, from the south 355
Fig. 82. Section of the form of hill in the Lowlands of Scotland,
known as 'Crag and Tail' 357
Fig. 83. Section of Boulder-Clay, Craiglockhart Hill, Edinburgh
363
Fig. 84. Striated Stone from Boulder-Clay of North Medwin Water,
Lanarkshire 364
Fig. 85. Section of Sand and Gravel Ridges (Kames) at Carstairs,
Lanarkshire 372
