362 Mr Milne on (he Parallel Roads of Lochaber. 



abundant indications, it is probable, that, when Loch Lubnaig stood 

 40 feet above its present level, its waters were discharged into a 

 lower lake, of which the eastern margin may be seen near the Lodge 

 of Gart-House; Ultimately the gravel heaps which held in this Cal- 

 lendar lake on the east, had been cut through, so as to allow of its 

 drainage ; and, accordingly, there are, on each side of the river Teitli 

 at this place, gravel banks and cliffs from 70 to 80 feet high. 



After the Callendar lake was drained, the waters which flowed out 

 of Lock Lubnaig would acquire fresh cutting power, and would rapidly 

 eat away the barrier which dammed back the lake to the higher level 

 before referred to. Callendar is about 270 feet above the sea. 



(5.) In the valley in which the town of Huntly stands, there are 

 two terraces, the one about 32 ffeet above the other, which are 

 very clearly the beaches of a lake, which has sunk from the oile to 

 the other, and latterly been drained off. 



(6.) A few miles south of Inverury, there are distinct traces of a 

 lake which formerly filled the valley. The burgh of Kintore has 

 been built in the ancient bottom of the lake. There are twO well- 

 marked beach-lines round the whole valley ; the one about 78 feet, 

 and the other 50 feet, above the channel of the united streams of 

 Don and Urie, which flow through the centre of the valley. The an- 

 cient bottom of the lake has been cut up by rivulets at the sides 

 of the valley into separate fragments, some of them of so unusual a 

 form as to have suggested a notion that they are artificid,! ; and, ac- 

 cordingly, in the guide-books, and even in the recent statistical ac- 

 counts of the parish, they are" so described. Two of these alleged 

 remains of antiquity are known by the names of Bass and Konih 

 Hillock ; and are variously conjectured to have been formed for sepul- 

 chral or judicial purposes. A similar mistake has been made with the 

 hills of Dunipace, near Falkirk, which are represented by historians 

 as formed to celebrate and record a peace between the Romans and 

 the natives of Scotland. They are detrital remnants fashioned into 

 conical shapes by the action of streams. 



(7.) In the valley of the Leader (Berwickshire), there will be 

 found traces on the hill sides, which cleatly shew the action of water. 

 Three very distinct markings of this nature are traceable near 

 Dodd's Mill, at Ilounslow, at Carfrae Mill, and at Annfield near 

 Ghannelkirk. The terraces at these different places, judging by the 

 sympiesometer, seem to be all very nearly on a level ; and if, on a 

 more minute survey, they really prove to be so, it would follow, that 

 ilie whole of Lauderdale had formerly been one vast lake, with a 

 blockage at or near Chappel. The height of these shelves is about 

 800 feet above the sea. 



It is scarcely necessary to advert to the inland situation, and 

 other circumstances characteristic of the various beach-lines now 

 mentioned, to shew that they could not have been formed by the 

 sea, but must have been produced by lakes which filled the valleys, 



