APPENDIX, 
HEGARDING BONES OF WHALE RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN 
UPPER DISTRICT. 
{Read Uh December 1824.) 
These bones have occurred seven miles west from those 
found at Airthrey, at A in the Map, on the estate of 
Blair- Drummond, and fifteen miles farther up the valley 
than those recently discovered in the clay at Dunmore. I 
am authorised to state, that they will be presented to the 
Museum when fully traced. Meantime, it may be re- 
marked, that they were situated within 400 yards of the 
margin of the carse-clay, in which they were imbedded at 
a depth of 4 feet. 
Under this clay, there is a stratum of black spongy peat- 
earth, closely resembling that already described at Fall-in. 
It is specifically heavier than water. Its colour nut-brown, 
changing to deep-black, within five minutes after exposure. 
In drying it shrinks greatly, and, being smoothed, presents 
a glossy surface. Exposed to a red-heat it emits a penetrat- 
ing odour, and is slowly reduced to ashes, whicli are ponder- 
ous, and promptly obey the magnet. This peat-earth is here 
6 feet in thickness, and is penetrated vertically by the roots 
of the Equisetum. It rests on clay, containing a large pro- 
portion of fine sand. The organic remains in this earth 
consist of pieces of fibrous vegetable matter, the same as 
observed in the corresponding mossy stratum already no- 
ticed ; these are an inch to two inches in length, and from 
one-fourth to an inch in breadth. Their general position is 
horizontal or parallel with the stratum, and they are com„ 
