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The strata above the clay, where no peat intervenes, are 

 sand and gravel. A good section of these is still to be seen 

 near Elie, about a mile south of Kilconquhar Station, at a 

 place where ballast is taken for the use of the line. The 

 lowest strata at this point are fine sand, white and brown, 

 and lie nearly level Above them are strata of sand and 

 gravel dipping east, which again are cut off by similar strata 

 dipping west. The gravel is not much waterworn, often 

 scarcely at all. A piece of shale, a foot square, and not more 

 than a quarter of an inch thick, was picked out from among 

 the gravel, so friable, that it is scarcely possible to conceive 

 that it had been exposed to any rude action of water. The 

 same alternations of sand and gravel, fine and coarse, are 

 exhibited along the line wherever a section is visible, and 

 never depart much from the level, what dip there is being 

 generally to the east. Among the gravel occasionally occur 

 nodules (so to speak) of fine, clear, bright-coloured sand, 

 without cement or cohesion. Can these have been frozen 

 lumps at the time the gravel was deposited ? 



It may not be altogether out ot the way to add, that at 

 the spot already mentioned, in excavating ballast, the work- 

 men came upon an ancient tomb, of a funnel shape, about 

 three feet deep, and the same width across the mouth. It 

 was lined with slabs of stone, and covered with the same 

 laid horizontally. A few small pieces of bone were found 

 in it, undoubtedly human, but they had been disturbed before 

 they were seen by any one able to judge of their character, 

 or to give a distinct account of them. 



Wednesday, December 23, 1863.— James M'Bain, M.D., R.N., Presi- 

 dent, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Office-Bearers for the Session : — 



Presidents. — David Page, Esq.; William Turner, Esq.,M.B. ; Thomas 

 Strethill Wright, M.D. 



Council — George Berry, Esq. ; A. M'Kenzie Edwards, Esq. ; Alex- 

 ander Bryson, Esq.; John Anderson, M.D. ; William S. Young, Esq.; 

 James M'Bain, M.D. 



Secretary. — John Alexander Smith, M.D. 



