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reticule basket, or rather like an old wife's pocket 

 pardon the simile. The stones are from the hills around. 

 The highest stone may be six feet high ; their average 

 height about four feet. They are grey, moss-grown, and 

 lichened ; and upon some of their points the hammer of 

 the antiquarian has hit very hard. At the north-east 

 corner is a small space, outside the circle, at the foot of 

 a large stone the second stone in the end row, at 

 which some person has been digging for relics, and has 

 left it half open. The small space looks a grave, as if 

 some one had been buried there after sacrifice. 



" Eeturning to the west end of Stemster Loch, you 

 observe a small stream runs out of it down to Loch 

 Rangag. This little stream I traced from the one loch 

 to the other. I traced it very patiently, and was 

 rewarded and delighted. 



" Where the burn runs out of Loch Stemster, there 

 has been dug a sort of watercourse, and a sluice-gate 

 has been put in. They have cut through the strata, 

 hard clay stone, and bituminous stone, with the same 

 abrupt dip to the east. You go down the stream, over 

 the edges of the strata, still dipping east. On and on, and 

 still the dip is east. Going on, over their edges, you 

 are arrested by a bed tilted south ! Dip south. Close in 

 contact, you find a bed on end! broken fragments, 

 angular, gneiss-looking, hard, bound together by three 

 seams of lime crystallised. Disturbance and even tritu- 

 ration have been at work. On a little. The strata wheel 

 round again to an easterly dip. Down, down, and down 

 down even to the Mill, and even below the Mill j and 



