454 on the conglomerate-rock: 



in the German Ocean. In this district of coast, 

 the sea, by its inroads, has displayed a complete 

 section of the various stratifications which here 

 compose those mountains. In consequence of this 

 section being made, the breadth or thickness of 

 each species of rock in the general stratification 

 may be measured without much difficulty, they 

 being here all very nearly vertical in their posi- 

 tion. 



Immediately to the west of Stonehaven, the 

 conglomerate-rock has been laid open by the sea, 

 and is to be seen in a most enormous mass, of se- 

 veral miles in thickness. 



At Fowls Shough, some miles to the west of 

 Stonehaven, it ranges along the coast to great 

 length, in one extended face of precipice of up- 

 wards of 1 20 feet in height, the sea washing its 

 base. From this extent of precipice, it stretches 

 towards the east to Dunnotter Castle, which is si- 

 tuated upon one of its lofty promontories that 

 project into the sea ; and from thence it continues 

 to form the bulwark of the coast to the head- land 

 which forms the western promontory of the bay of 

 Stonehaven. 



Upon this part of the coast the conglomerate is 

 entirely composed of rounded water-worn stones, 

 from the size of a pigeon's egg to a bullet of a foot 

 and half diameter. These consist of granites, 

 gneiss, porphyries, jaspers, hornblendes, hornstones, 

 and quartz " P of these, the quartz and the porphy- 



