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some broad dikes with remarkable bends, greatly altering 

 the sandstone, and from their width and direction clearly 

 identifiable on the Strathwillan shore opposite ; that several 

 singular inversions of dip occur in the sandstone beds, whose 

 surfaces also are worn in, a singularly uneven manner, so 

 that portions stand out high above the others; that about 

 Carlo cottage and the smithy, and between this point and 

 the sandstone quarry, near Corrie, there will be seen several 

 dikes which bifurcate, and in the angle of separation enclose 

 altered masses of sandstone; and that equally striking cases 

 will be met with of a change in direction among these 

 dikes. After examining them, no one will hesitate to consider 

 it quite possible that the pitchstone vein of Birk Glen, 

 traced all the way across the moor from the base of Dun Dhu, 

 may be the same which shews again at Brodick school-house. 



The old sea cliff is worn everywhere into caves by the 

 long-continued action of the waves. One of the largest 

 of these is " Lily's Cave," west from Carlo cottage, named 

 from a poor woman, of this name, who took it for her 

 permanent abode when her cottage was taken down to 

 make way for some former improvement, the date of which 

 is uncertain. She was a widow, with one daughter. The 

 youthful and pretty Lily had a lover in good circumstances, 

 whose truth stood the test of misfortune; but though he 

 had good hopes of Lily's favour before, she would not 

 listen to his proposals now the widow would not leave 

 her retreat, and Lily would not desert her. But soon 

 the fair flower drooped and withered; and before a year 

 had passed, the widow was left alone in her new dwelling. 

 A gang of gipsies occupied the cave after the poor widow, 

 and became a trouble to the neighbourhood. They were 

 expelled by force ; and to prevent any new occupancy, 

 the gravel bank above the rock was digged down and the 

 mouth obstructed. 



It is rarely that shells can now be found in any of the 

 caves or hollows of this cliff. The rapid growth of vegeta- 



