I. A Description of the Strata which occur in afcending from 

 the Plains of Kincardineshire to the summit of Mount 

 Battoc, one of the moji elevated points in the Eajlern Dijiricl of 

 the Grampian Mountains. By Lieutenant-Colonel Imrie, 

 F.R. S. Edin. 



[Read $th March 1804.] 



THE moft mountainous parts of Scotland are fituated in its 

 weftern and north-weft diftricts. From thofe parts of the 

 country, feveral chains of mountains branch off, and continue 

 their courfes in various directions, and to various extent. The 

 moft extended of thofe chains is that of the Grampians. This 

 chain takes its rife from nearly about the centre of the above al- 

 pine diftrict, and continues its courfe in a direction almoft due 

 eaft, or perhaps a little to the fouth of that point, until it difap- 

 pears in the German Ocean, betwixt the towns of Aberdeen and 

 Stonehaven. 



This chain, in its eaftern diftrict, conilfts of three ranges, run- 

 ning nearly parallel to each other ; the two lateral ranges being, 

 considerably lower than the central one. To the lateral moun- 

 tains are attached a range of lower hills, that flope down into 

 undulated grounds, which fkirt the adjacent plains. 



The general fhape of the individual mountains compofing 

 thofe three ranges, is oblong, rounded, and fometimes flattifh 

 on the tops ; their length is always in the direction of the 



A 2. chain, 



