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easy rolling. But if we admit the agency of ice, we have a 

 force adequate to the transport. This transport took place 

 before the present level of land and water was established ; 

 the cliff was not yet cut out from the sloping hill-side; the 

 bed on which the boulder now reposes was the sea bottom, 

 and in the glacial period it may have glided down upon icy 

 sheets descending from the conies, or been borne off by a 

 berg which deposited here the heaviest portion of its load. 

 A sister block rests upon the same cliff, on the south side of 

 the burn ; but its dimensions are much less. The shore is 

 strewed with multitudes of similar masses of all sizes. 



From this point the geologist ought to pass up to examine 

 the limestone beds, thence to the top of Maoldon. and so 

 across to the granite junction at the fall of the White Water. 

 The limestone bands come out in the broken ground in front 

 of the north cliffs of Maoldon, dipping south-east with the 

 sandstone at angles of 30 to 40. They are similar to the 

 beds at Corrie, with the same number of integrant strata, 

 each of which, however, is thinner than at Corrie, and with 

 the same assemblage of fossils. These limestone bands, as 

 well as those in the Brodick woods, have been supposed to be 



d e 



Fig. 20. 



a, Granite of Goatfell ; b, slate ; c, old red sandstone ; d d, sand- 

 stone with coal plants ; e, limestone band ; /, tideway ; g, terrace and 

 old sea cliff; h, top of Maoldon, 1206 feet high. 



upthrows of the Corrie beds, due to four great faults ; but we 

 doubt the correctness of this view for reasons already stated 

 (Art. 13). 



If such a dislocation as is supposed really took place, there 



