204 DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN chap. 



which resemble types to be found along the south-eastern border of the 

 Highlands and the north of Ireland. Indeed, some may have been 

 derived from the south of Ireland. 



Station 95. 



The evidence furnished by the igneous materials is no less remarkable. 

 The plutonic rocks are represented by granites resembling those of 

 Lower Old Red Sandstone age in Scotland and the north of Ireland, 

 and also by a specimen of nepheline-syenite which cannot be matched 



