212 Mi- Anderson on the Quartz District 



_ ,. . . Moroosa 



English. Joomea. - of Edgong. of the Mamuri. 



The Moroosas have no written language, but their form of 

 writing the syllables of their words is evidently similar to that 

 used by the natives of Ava and Arakan in their written lan- 

 guages ; thus, the word eit, signifying sleep in the Arakan dia- 

 lect, is the same with eim, the first syllable in the compound 

 word eim-moi used by the Moroosas, for t final before m is 

 pronounced m both at Ava and Arakan. 



(To be concluded in next Number.) 



Art. III.— On the Quartz District in the neighbourhood of 

 Loch Ness.* By George Anderson, Esq. F.R.S.E., &c. 

 Inverness. 



1. The rock I am now to describe, is more abundantly found 

 in the counties of Inverness and Ross than is generally ima- 

 gined ; but its character and geological relations are no where 

 better exemplified than along each side of the banks of Loch 

 Ness. 



9i. In the lower, or eastern portion of the Great Glen, of 

 which the basin of this lake forms a considerable part, the 

 quartz-rock is associated with sandstone, while in the central 

 and higher districts it is connected with granite and with 

 gneiss. 



The mountains along the north side of the lake are imme- 

 diately connected with a chain of similar ones, — no large val- 

 ley intervening, while those on the south side are separated 

 from the succeeding ranges, in the interior of the country, 



* Read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh on the 5th April 1824- 



