he 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

CHAPTER III.

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
Granite--Portsoy Inn--Serpentine Beds--Portsoy Serpentine
unrivalled for small ornaments--Description of it--Significance of
the term _serpentine_--Elizabeth Bond and her "Letters"--From
Portsoy to Cullen--Attritive Power of the Ocean illustrated--The
Equinoctial--From Cullen to Fochabers--The Old Red again--The old
Pensioner--Fochabers--Mr. Joss, the learned Mail-guard--The Editor
a sort of Coach-guard--On the Coach to Elgin--Geology of
Banffshire--Irregular paging of the Geologic Leaves--Geologic Map
of the County like Joseph's Coat--Striking Illustration. 291

CHAPTER IV.

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 south--Geologic
Formations at Linksfield difficult to be understood--Ganoid Scales
of the Wealden--Sudden Reaction, from complex to simple, in the
Scales of Fishes--Pore-covered Scales--Extraordinary amount of
Design exhibited in Ancient Ganoid Scales--Holoptychius Scale
illustrated by Cromwell's "fluted pot"--Patrick Duff's Geological
Collection--Elgin Museum--Fishes of the Ganges--Armature of Ancient
Fishes--Compensatory Defences--- The Hermit-crab--Spines of the
Pimelodi--Ride to Campbelton--Theories of the formation of
Ardersier and Fortrose Promontories--Tradition of their
construction by the Wizard, Michael Scott--A Region of Legendary
Lore. 307

CHAPTER V.

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-clay of
Cromarty "begins to tell its story"--One of its marked Scenic
Peculiarities--Hints to Landscape Painters--"Samuel's