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handy steam yacht, I have been enabled to place 

 all the great rock formations, which are exposed on 

 the shores of Loch Broom, in their true order of 

 age and succession, from my Fundamental Gneiss 

 (Laurentian), through the grand massive rocks of 

 Benmore, the Lower Silurian Quartz rocks and 

 Limestone of Ullapool, up to the overlying Grey- 

 Gneiss of Braemore (Metamorphic Lower Silurian), 

 on which the mansion stands, and from which, 

 looking northwards, the spectacle commands, in one 

 unrivalled view, all the glorious geological series." 

 The aforesaid book does not say if Sir Roderick 

 was a deer slayer, but the above remarks have 

 suggested to the author that possibly he would have 

 given a novel, interesting, and perhaps puzzling 

 description of a stalk, from his own point of view. 



In 1869 Millais again enriched the visitors' book 

 with a drawing showing the effect of a Noah's flood 

 at the lofty site of Braemore House ; then in the 

 year following the names of Mr. Samuel Morley 

 and Sir William Harcourt appear in the book, 



