214 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



advantage. Dr Hutton himfelf has defcrlbed 



this jundion ; Theory 

 p. 464. 



the Earthy vol. i. 



191. From the point jufl mentioned, the fe- 



condary llrata continue as far as Stonehaven 

 where the fouthern chain of the Grampian 

 mountains is interfered by the fea-coaft. Here 

 a great mafs of pudding-ftone appears to he on 

 the primary ftrata, but their immediate contadl 

 has not been obferved. 



192. Going along the coaft tovp-ard the north, 

 the next junctions which we faw were on the 



Iho 



one near Gardenll 



d another 



C alien, in BanfF-lhire. The latter is very di- 

 itin6l ; it is about a mile to the weftward of the 

 rocks called The Three Kings, where a red fand- 

 Itone, the lower beds of which involve much 

 quartzy g 

 gular, 



Some of th 



lies horizontally upon very 



upright, and highly indurated ftrata 



micaceous, and other 



ft 



are 



of the granulated quartz, mentioned in \ 152. 



193. This laft is, I believe, the rnofl; northern 

 jundion w^hich has been obferved in our ifland. 

 The weftern coaft furnifhes feveral more, which 

 however are not all vifibie. The line of fepa-' 

 ration, between the primary fchiftus of the 

 Grampians and the fandftone which covers it, 

 is interfecfed at its weftern extremity by the 

 Frith of Clyde, not far from Ardencaple in Dun- 



bartonfliire. The two kinds of ftone can be 



traced 



