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out of the end of the slopes. I examined these, and 

 found shell crumbs, but they were not the genuine thing. 

 I found, along with the crumbs, entire shells of Helix, 

 Pupa, Clausilia, etc. This stamped these sandslips as 

 quite modern affairs. 



" Then I went on to the cottage built beside the small, 

 neat, landing-place on the sea-shore, at Brough Haven. 

 The braes above here are at least eighty feet high ; and 

 a fine landslip had, not very long ago, taken place ; but 

 alas ! the Government folks, anxious to have everything 

 tidy, had driven piles of wood into the ground, and laid 

 fresh divots* over the whole of it. Had they only known 

 that I was coming to see the place, they would doubtless 

 have left it bare and raw ! 



" Never mind ! In spite of them, I found a few small 

 landslips, and in the raw face of them I found, what 

 surprised me, my old friend the blue boulder clay, filled 

 with pieces of Cyprina ! I gathered a handful, and 

 passed on to a precipitous cliff of blue boulder clay, right 

 above the cottages on the shore ; and digging steps for 

 my feet up the clay, I found Cyprina and shell crumbs 

 of the sea. On the very top of the brae, just a little back, 

 the Government men have built a very handsome 

 cottage.^ 



" A very little to the west of this cottage there is a 

 small burn. The burn has cut its way down through 



* Plats of grass. 



f It is at the little haven of Brough that the supplies are landed 

 for the men at the lighthouse situated on the northern end of Dunnet 

 Head. 



