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of these surfaces reach to four feet in thickness. Figures 1 and 2 
will give an idea of the irregular manner in which the old surfaces or 
earth-bands occur, showing that originally they had covered ridges 
or hillocks of blown sand or deformed raised beach. In Ayrshire 
the old earth-bands sometimes occur on the nearly level surfaces 
of the old beaches ; but I have not detected any of these in the 
Torrs, their absence being, doubtless, for the reason that during 
Figure I 
Figure IL. 
the upheaval of the land there was always sand being blown up 
from the beach. 
Figures 1 and 2 show the old soil-bands in which the o/der 
antiquities occur ; a, b, c, d, and a, b,c, are the old soil-bands. 
Figure 1 section is forty feet high, Figure 2 section, sixty feet high. 
The older articles, so far as I know, occur only in or near the 
surface of the soil-bands, none having been yet got in the beach 
