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is seen across the rich glades of the park, covered with 

 pasturing sheep, and finely varied with tree clumps and 

 tall standing stones. The enlargement of the park, the 

 formation of a new approach, and the opening up of this 

 fine view, rendered it necessary to demolish the village. 

 Yet had the old place a beauty of its own. The situation 

 was delightful ; and it was pleasant to see, on a fine summer 

 evening, as one returned from a walk among the hills, the 

 happy village groups enjoying themselves out of doors; the 

 young sporting on the common, or strolling in the green 

 lanes; the matrons bustling to and fro; the men in knots 

 about the cottage doors. But the household gods have 

 sought a new sanctuary at Upper Invercloy, and the popula- 

 tion is now out of sight. 



55. Between the fine picturesque group of ash trees near 

 the beach and the Brodick pier, the strata of sandstone rise 

 from beneath the sands, and exhibit some extraordinary 

 irregularities of stratification. Two set of beds dip out of 

 the usual direction and at higher angles. The usual dip is 

 due south by the compass that is, S. 26 E.; the irregular beds 

 make angles with these. Those on the east, next the regular 

 strata, dip E. 34 S. The other set west of these dip due 

 east; and when in the next set the usual south dip is 

 resumed it is 10 farther round toward the east that is, 

 S. 36 E., instead of 26. There is no apparent ca"use, in 

 dike or fracture, for this strange tumble-about among the 

 beds it seems more probably due to eddies at the time of 

 deposition. 



East of the pier, the strata are also slightly irregular, and 

 the angle of inclination greater than usual. The beds near 

 the pier dip S. 46 E., and a little farther east the dip is 

 S. 21 E. ; the former being a difference of 20 from the dip 

 west of the pier. We shall find similar examples of these 

 irregularities farther along the shore. By the roadside here, 

 under the summer-house perched aloft upon the cliff, there 

 is a huge granite boulder, the weight of which cannot be 



