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contained in the moss is chiefly birch and oak, and the trees are occa- 

 sionally of considerable size, one measuring above 2^ feet in diameter. 



Fig. 4.— Section near Dyeivorh two miles west of Campbeltown. 



inches. 

 n. Brown clay with beds of fine gravel . . 14 



b. Brown clay with no gravel 6 



c. Light brown sandy clay 22 



inches . 



d. Dark bluish brown clay '20 



e. Lignite bed 12 



Fig. b.— Section near Bleachfield ivest of Campbeltown. 









inches. 



a. Soil : 10 to 12 



b. Clay vrith veins of sand in the 



middle and more sandy below . . 20 



c. Red ferruginous clay 4 



d. Bluish-white clay 3 



inches. 

 e. Lignite bed of clay and plants 



mixed ^ 



/. Sandy clay ^0 



g. Peat 2 



h. Peaty gravel more than 30 



Besides the trees, leaves, some of them apparently of the common 

 alder, occur in considerable abundance, and hazel-nuts are not un- 

 common, and, when the river was deepened, these were in some places 

 found in great heaps. I did not observe any shells or animal remains 



