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there is a short but deep valley issuing upon the road, about 

 three miles from Keeshorn. At the mouth of the valley, and 

 near its rivulet, large spaces of bare rock are polished and 

 striated, the stride being from N. 30° W., and thus conform- 

 able, as is customary, to the major axis of the valley. Round 

 the mouth of this valley are curving ridges forming true 

 moraines. 



In the valley in which Applecross House is situated, lumps, 

 lines, and cones of similar detritus, generally bristling with 

 large blocks, are scattered over a wide surface, and I found 

 amongst these one decided set of curving ridges, having the 

 concave of the curve turned in the most significant manner 

 to a deep lofty recess in the side of the glen. These I con- 

 sider as true moraines, the product of a glacier formed at 

 some remote period in Corry Glas, the recess pointed to. 



North of Loch Broom, on the west coast of Ross-shire, is 

 a huge mountain named Ben More Coigach, of a triangular 

 form, and having very precipitous sides. In a deep dark 

 valley to the north of this mountain, a scene of extraordinary 

 sterility and rudeness, I found a striking collection of hum- 

 mocks and ridges of detrital matter, with some huge blocks 

 perched on the summits of rocky eminences. At one deep 

 precipitous corry towards the east, there was a regular curv- 

 ing ridge of detritus, rough with blocks, having the concave 

 side of the curve turned towards the corry, from which it is 

 not more than a quarter of a mile distant. This I also con- 

 sider as a true moraine. 



In Assynt, Sutherlandshire, the eastern slope of the 

 mountain Canisp extends in a tolerably straight line for 

 several miles from the east end of the loch. At two places 

 there are slight hollows in the line of slope, and apropos to 

 these there are moraines in the valley below, filling its 

 breadth of a quarter of a mile, but partially demolished by 

 the rivulet which seeks its way amongst them. In both of 

 the hollows, the white quartz rock is polished, with strue 

 pointed straight down hill, clearly the effect of the glaciers 

 which deposited the moraines. What strikingly affiliates 

 the moraines or detrital ridges to the recesses in Canisp is 

 the fact, that the outermost lines lie close under the limestone 



