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In making an ascending 

 geological section (see sec- 

 tion, fig. 1) from the edge of 

 the crystalline rocks about 

 five miles south of Elgin, 

 and passing by that town to 

 Lossiemouth and the coast- 

 ridge which extends east- 

 wards from that place by 

 Covesea to Burgh Head, the 

 following phenomena present 

 themselves. In the hills east 

 of Delias, the older or cry- 

 stalline rocks are finely la- 

 minated, quartzose, mica- 

 ceous, and gneissose flag- 

 stones, splitting to the thick- 

 ness of tiles, containing some 

 white quartz -veins, with 

 layers of pinkish and greyish 

 colours alternating, and vdth 

 northerly dips varying from 

 25° to 45°. This crystalline 

 rock is unconformably over- 

 laid by a hard grit, sur- 

 mounted by a coarse red con^ 

 glomerate with interlacing 

 marly beds, as in the sections 

 described near Altyre. The 

 Palls of the Shoggle Burn, to 

 which I was conducted by 

 my friend the Kev. G. Gor- 

 don, exposes such junctions 

 clearly. Brick-red breccia 

 or conglomerate, with way- 

 bands of red marl, follow as 

 you advance into the vale 

 watered by the Lossie ; and 

 these beds are immediately 

 surmounted by soft yellow 

 grits and sandstones in 

 which fish-scales and other 

 fossils occur (Bothriolepis, 

 &c.)*. 



* These fossils, in a similar 

 matrix, also occur, according to 

 Mr. Gr. Gordon, on the side of the 

 Buinach Hill, halfway between 

 the Shoggle Burn and Pluscardine 

 Priory. — June 1859. 



