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ON THE LAST CHANGES 



RELATIVE LEVELS OF THE LAND AND SEA 

 IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 



By JAMES SMITH, Esq. of Jordanhill, F.R.S.L. & E., 

 F.G.S. & M.W.S. 



The occurrence of recent marine remains at higher levels 

 than those at which they could have been deposited by our 

 present seas, early attracted the notice of the Wernerian 

 Society ; and its memoirs contain a valuable collection of 

 facts illustrative of this subject. The communications of 

 Messrs Stevenson,* Bald,t Home Drummond,t Blackad- 

 der, || and others, § furnish .numerous observations respect- 

 ing indications of changes in level on the eastern coasts of 

 Scotland, whilst those of Captain LaskeyH and Mr Adam- 

 son** record similar phenomena in the basin of the Clyde 

 and Lochlomond. 



* Wern. Mem. iii. 327. t lb. i. 483 ; and iii. 125. + lb. v. 440. 



II lb. v. 424, 572. § lb. ii. 342, 348 ; v. 572, 575. 



U lb. iv. 5G8. * * lb. iv. 334. 



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