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on which some two or three hundred thousand people 

 might take their seats. I found very few specimens, - 

 a few ammonites and belemnites, and a bit of fossil 

 wood ; but what I saw will be of use to me should I 

 set myself to my proposed geological sketches. The 

 recent formation which I found under the northern 

 Sutor throws a good deal of light on all our lias deposits 

 of the north. In both the lias and the deposit we find 

 the same classes of remains, wood, cones of the pine, 

 and shells, the bivalves among the latter presenting in 

 most cases their two valves unseparated. I should have 

 said that, before leaving the shore, I found the fish-beds 

 of the Old Red appeared almost in contact with the 

 lias. I found a Coccosteus last year in this place among 

 the loose pebbles, and wondered where it could have 

 come from. 



' I hear on every side of the oppression of our land- 

 lords. In the parish of Logie there is a large gravel- 

 pit in a fir-wood in which on sacramental occasions the 

 out-door congregation used to assemble. At other 

 times it is a famous resort of the gipsies. Their smoke 

 may be seen rising over the trees six months in the 

 year, and their rude tents pitched in a corner of the 

 hollow. Some of the neighbouring farmers and cotters 

 expressed a wish not very long ago that persons so 

 dangerous and disreputable should be prevented from 

 making it a place of resort, but they were told by the 

 proprietor's doer to be kind to the gipsies, and they 

 would find them harmless. On the Disruption the 

 minister of Logie respectfully applied for leave to erect 

 his preaching-tent in the hollow, in the expectation, 

 fond man, of being permitted to rank with the gipsies. 

 But, alas, no ! Tinkers may be patronized as pictur- 

 esque, but the Free Church is dangerous; and so the 



