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a hollow they are able to hold their own against the wind, as there 
is now no undermining going on to dry up and wither them. 
They now keep creeping up the sides of the hollow till it becomes 
completely covered by vegetation, at the same time the bottom 
of it is being gradually filled with sand drifted from its sides, 
till what was once a hollow, with two or three feet of water 
in it during the winter months, may become permanently dry 
all the year round, and if there is no drifting sand near it, it 
may remain in this state for a considerable period—a paradise 
for sheep. 
Some of the dunes will, I daresay, rise to about a hundred feet 
above sea-level, and they are quite as high on the more recent 
parts as they are on any bit of the raised beach area. 
The oldest antiquity ground of the Torrs is confined to the 
raised beach, which may, at its highest part, be forty feet above sea- 
level, and this is a strong argument in favour of the land having 
risen several feet since that antiquarian period: the same 
conditions obtain in Ayrshire. 
The newer antiquities may, of course, extend over any part of 
the old ground, but they are also got outside of it—a little nearer 
the sea, there being an irregular belt next the sea where no 
antiquities of any description are found ; and this is the same in 
all the very low patches of beach land in the south-west of 
Scotland, such as those bits north of Ballantrae and Girvan, 
as well as that from the Heads of Ayr to Saltcoats, which 
contain no antiquities nor even chips of flint. The sketch map 
will give an indication of the respective positions of the different 
areas. 
The old antiquity area occupies large parts of Mid Torrs, High 
Torrs, and Clachshiant (Clayshant); the newer antiquity (extension) 
areas occurring as small detached parts on Laigh Torrs and Mid 
Torrs. 
On the higher land, some distance outside of the Torrs, a lot 
of antiquities have also been got. 
To save repetition, the two antiquity areas of the Torrs will be 
called the old ground, and the new ground. 
The old ground presents us with several dark bands, sometimes 
four, these being evidently old land surfaces, and they have been 
successively occupied by the people who left the antiques. Some 
