STILL FINDING FOSSILS. 



" I have found pieces of clay slate in the Old Red 

 conglomerate; that is, the slate was in existence before 

 the other was formed. 



" Those fish I found the other day lived before the 

 Old Eed conglomerate was wholly made. A bed with 

 rolled granite ground down into sandy gravel overlies a 

 bed of limestone, and the limestone deposit overlies a 

 bed of limy clay, which contains the fish remains. 



" It is a beautiful spot where the dead fish he buried. 

 All is quiet and still. No sound of any kind, but the 

 wind whistling along the heather. In summer time the 

 royal eagle comes to build beside the waterfall, and to 

 prey upon the muirfowl. Death's doings are still 

 about us, and who knows how long it is since they first 

 began?" 



A few days later, he says : " Some time ago, one of 

 the flagmen showed me a fossil which he did not under- 

 stand. It was a fine one, and only your humble servant 

 knew what it was. I had, twenty years ago, furnished 

 Hugh Miller with such a fossil, and this was the only 

 instance of another turning up anywhere. This was 

 found in the quarries. I sent word to London, and Mr. 

 John Miller bought it. It gave me pleasure to find 

 Hugh's word corroborated. I have not the least doubt 

 that the entire fish will some day turn up, and then it 

 will be seen who was speaking truth." 



Dick also searched the rocks at Murkle Bay, where 

 he had found the big fossil buckler. One day he dis- 

 covered a rather large bone sticking out of the mass, 

 He went at it with his hammer and chisel. He laboured 



