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His place of concealment being soon discovered, he shared the fate 

 of his companions. 



We cross the Sannox burn by a rustic bridge, where it comes 

 flashing down along its bed of granite sand, among wild copsewood, 

 through green shadows and gleams of sunlight. Our path is now 

 by the farm-house on the shore ; but we must not pass so near the 

 finest view of Glen Sannox without stopping for a little to look upon 

 it. This point will be readily found upon the road towards North 

 Sannox house. We look down upon a broken foreground, sloping 

 on both sides towards the stream. On the right the glen is bounded 

 by the long, steep ridge of Suithi-Fergus and the Castles ; on the left 

 by that of Cioch-na-Oigh and the prolonged ridge of Goatfell. Cior- 

 Mhor stands proudly up, closing the long vista. We return to the 

 shore. The high ridge of ground dividing North and South Glen 

 Sannox terminates on the shore, in a precipice called the Blue Bock, 

 from a decomposition taking place upon it, due to the presence of 

 iron and manganese, acted on by trickling streamlets. Here, and 

 along the shore, the strata of old red still retain their southern dip, 

 at a small angle. But when we cross the North Sannox water, we 

 find the inclination southwards much less; and as we advance a 

 little, the strata become horizontal. Still advancing, we find them 

 dipping in the opposite direction, at angles gradually increasing till 

 the original dip of 15 or 20 is reached, but now directed N.N.W., 

 instead of S.S.E. The line from which these opposite dips are 

 thus directed, and which is nearly in the direction of North Sannox 

 Glen, is called the Anticlinal axis. The name was applied by 

 Murchison and Sedgwick; but the relations of the strata were first 

 pointed out by MacCulloch. It is obvious, then, that the strata are 

 successively newer as we advance along the shore towards Loch 

 Banza. We shall pass over their basset edges rising southwards, 

 the dips being northerly, and the inclinations on the shore from 10 

 to 15 and 20; while on the face of the hills above they are from 

 50 to 70, but in both cases alike towards the same point of the 

 compass. 



The Old Bed here is cut by several dikes, of which two are 

 extremely interesting. One of these is about half-a-mile north of 

 North Sannox burn; it entangles a mass of altered sandstone, 

 wedge-shaped at either end, five yards long and seven inches thick ; 

 the range is nearly north-west. The other dike is at the angle of the 

 shore, where the Fallen Bocks first come into view, at little more 

 than half-a-mile distant. The dike is best seen in the sand under 

 the grassy bank. The structure of the trap varies, much of it being 



