CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



DUNNET HEAD. 



The coast scenery near Thurso Holborn Head The rockbound coast 

 The Gyoes Fury of the waves Scrabster Roads New rocks laid 

 bare Dunnet Head a favourite haunt Height of the cliffs 

 Extent of the peninsula Dwarwick Head Yachting trip round 

 Dnnnet Head The gyoe near Dwarwick The sea-birds The 

 lighthouse Slips of the rocks Dick's journey to Dunnet Head 

 Dunnet sands Over the heather Down the cliffs Search for 

 ferns Overtaken by the sea Dick found by a pleasure party 

 Geology of Dunnet Head Devoid of organisms The sandstone 

 cliffs Sandstone from shore to shore Rocks at Brough Dunnet 

 Loch A superstition of Caithness . . . Pages 81-97 



CHAPTER IX. 



GEOLOGY DISCOVERT OP A HOLOPTYCHIUS. 



Studies Geology Mantell and Buckland Hugh Miller's Old Red 

 Sandstone Addresses Hugh Miller The Holoptychius Describes 

 the beginning of his studies Hugh Miller's account of Dick 

 Gentlemen-geologists The scalding theory Dick sends his fossils 

 to Hugh Miller Hugh Miller's acknowledgments . Pages 98-109 



CHAPTER X. 



GEOLOGY OF THE THURSO COAST. 

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Invitations to Hugh Miller Description of the coast Thurso East 

 Fossiliferous beds "That man is mad" View from the coast 

 Pudding Gyoe Murkle Bay View of Dunnet cliffs Geologising 

 at Scrabster The sea The Coccosteus An old burying-ground 

 Bishop's Palace Scrabster Roads Holborn Head The Deil's Brig 

 The Clett Slater's monument Brims Searching for fossils on 

 Holborn Head Pages 110-128 



CHAPTER XL 



HUGH MILLER VISITS DICK. 



Dick's observations in geology Opposed to theorising Dip of tha 

 strata How came the fossil fish ? The flagstones of Caithness- 

 Geological formation of Caithness Elevation and depression of th 



