ON THE SHELL-BEARING DEPOSITS IN KINTYRE. 379 
southern portion of the peninsula, viz. 8, 55° E., 8. 55° W., E. 10° N., 
and nearly N. and 8. 
Tangy Glen.—In 1873 Messrs. Robertson and Crosskey described the 
section of shelly clay in Tangy Glen! at a height of about 130 feet above 
the sea-level, in a paper from which the following extracts are taken :— 
Fic. 1.—Map showing the localities of Shelly Clay where exposed at Cleongart, 
Drumcre Burn, and Tangy Burn, in Kintyre. 
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‘The chief interest of this section consists in the fact that, contrary 
to the usual position of the boulder-clay in the west of Scotland, it here 
1 Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, vol. iv. p, 134. 
