112 NOTICES OF THE NEWER PLIOCENE DEPOSITS 



Rev. Mr Smith has described a sub-marine forest, and in 

 Skye Dr MacCulloeh notices a series of terraces on the 

 shore, " exhibiting precisely the same appearances which 

 characterise the terraces that line the alluvial valleys 

 through which active rivers have cut their way," and 

 which, of course, owe their origin to the same causes 

 which have in other places produced like effects. 



In the Orkney Islands, submerged forests have been 

 observed, and on the north coast of Scotland, the Earl of 

 Caithness informs me that near Scotland's Haven there is 

 a bed of oysters 40 or 50 feet above the sea level. His Lord- 

 ship has also observed on the north-east coast, a littoral 

 deposit between Wick and Duncansbyhead, about a quar- 

 ter of a mile inland. 



The ancient terraces extend from the ord of Caithness to 

 Banff.* At Tain, Mr Jardine tells me that he found marine 

 shells 60 feet above the sea. At Kiltearn, on the north 

 side of the bay of Cromarty, there is a bed of shells at the 

 height of 30 feet,t and at Dingwall, at the head of the 

 bay, one of blue clay full of shells, in which, at the dis- 

 tance of three miles from the sea, there was found one of 

 the vertebrae of a whale at an elevation of 12 feet, J At 

 Inverlochy in the county of Ross, and along the shores of 

 Moray firth, this deposit is observable. § There is a raised 

 beach near Kinnairdshead, || and at Peterhead, Dr Buck- 

 land observed shells at the height of 60 feet.^f In the 

 counties of Kincardine, Forfar, and Fife, there are many 

 notices of the elevated marine beds, in the Statistical Ac- 



* Agricultural Journal, Dec. 1836, p. 431. 



t Stat. Acct., vol. i. p. 283. 



X Trans. R. S, Edin., vol. x. p. 105. 



§ Information of Sir T. D. Lauder, and Stat. Acct-, vol. xiii. p. 21. 



|| Stat. Acct., vol. vi. p. 2. 



H Jameson's Edin. Phil. Journal, vol. xii. p. 314. 



