THURSO RIVER. 



THURSO RIVER: FROM THE BRIDGE. 



consequence of the openings left at the south-west end, 

 the waters of the river, when the rains fell and the 

 floods rose, rushed with great impetuosity and violence 

 on the end of a bank of blue boulder clay, undermining 

 and bringing down large pieces of it. After one of these 

 slippings I found the first fragments of shell. A piece 

 of stout Cyprina was found sticking in the clay ; and 

 various shell fragments, with a considerable sprinkling 

 of pieces like grains of oatmeal or pinheads. 



" At another part of the river, a large piece of boulder 

 clay had fallen, near Juniper Bank House ; and here I 

 detected fragments of shell, and that fragment of Dent 



