Geology. 279 
Watershed of one portion of the region, as seen in the steep precipices 
of the Balloch of Kintail, only four miles distant from the western salt 
water of Loch Duich, indicating no anticlinal ; the flagstones of gneiss- 
ose rocks plunging rapidly to the east-south-east, a feature which was 
as forcibly presented in many places to the recent observation of Prof. 
Nicol and the author as it was to the latter and his former associate 
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