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cemetery, popularly called St. Molios' Grave, but in reality, 

 we believe, the tombstone of an abbot of Saddell, with his 

 chalice and pastoral staff (Art. 70). The place of worship 

 adjoining is a chapel-of-ease to Kilmorie Church, near Lag, 

 and has service every third Sabbath; on the two other 

 Sabbaths the hearers attend the Free Church on the west 

 side of the vale, most of them having sittings in that church 

 also an example of liberal Christian feeling which it would 

 be well to follow. The detrital accumulations at the mouth 

 of Clachan Glen have been already referred to (Art. 90). 

 They consist of the true boulder clay below, with striated 

 stones, and above of the upper drifts, the intermediate shell 

 bed not being present in any of the sections, so far as we 

 could discover; but our examination was not lengthened^ and 

 the difficulties are not less formidable than those to be met 

 with in the sections already described (Art. 85). The lower 

 and middle parts of this glen shew the lower portions of the 

 carboniferous series ; and high on the south side, apparently 

 by an upthrow of the strata, beds of white limestone, with 

 quartz pebbles, like that of Achab farm and the Fallen 

 Rocks, are brought to the surface. The metamorphic action 

 throughout, but especially towards the head of the glen, is 

 the most extensive and remarkable we have seen in Arran 

 beds, bands, and dikes of claystone, greenstone, basalt, and 

 syenite, intersect the sandstones and marls, or are intercalated 

 with them, and produce such marked changes that all dis- 

 tinction between sedimentary and igneous products is 

 obliterated. The sandstones pass across the watershed into 

 Lamlash Glen on one side, and Glen Cloy on the other. 

 From the high plateau above Ploverfield, we may descend 

 either by Windmill Hill or the Sheeans. To walk from 

 Invercloy over the " String " by Mauchrie water-foot and 

 Tormore, and return by this route, is no mean performance 

 for one day. But the platform ought to be gained before 

 sunset, as twilight falls rapidly in Glen Cloy, and the ground 

 between the Sheeans and Invercloy is broken and difficult. 



