A SUMMER RAMBLE AMONG THE HEBRIDES. 209 



tance, the whole of the eternity to come ? "We may be at 

 least assured, that nothing can be too low for angels to re- 

 member, that was not too low for God to create. 



I took coach for Edinburgh on the following morning ; for 

 with my visit to Scat-Craig terminated the explorations of my 

 Snmmer Ramble. During the summer of the present year 

 I have found time to follow up some of the discoveries of the 

 last. In the course of a hasty visit to the island of Eigg, I 

 succeeded in finding in situ reptile remains of the kind which 

 I had found along the shores in the previous season, in de- 

 tached water-rolled masses. The deposit in which they oc- 

 cur lies deep in the Oolite. In some parts of the island there 

 rest over it alternations of beds of trap and sedimentary 

 strata, to the height of more than a thousand feet ; but in 

 the line of coast which intervenes between the farm-house of 

 Keill and the picturesque shieling described in my fifth chap- 

 ter, it has been laid bare by the sea immediately under the 

 cliffs, and we may see it jutting out at a low angle from among 

 the shingle and rolled stones of the beach for several hundred 

 feet together, charged everywhere with the teeth, plates, and 

 scales of Ganoid fishes, and, somewhat more sparingly, with 

 the ribs, vertebrae, and digital bones of saurians. But a full 

 description of this interesting deposit, as its discovery belongs 

 to the Summer Ramble of a year, the ramblings of which are 

 not yet completed, must await some future time. 



