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^XV.— Notice regarding Fossil Bones of a Whale 
discovered in the District of Monteith, 
By H. H. Dkummond, Esq. of Biair-Drumnioiid, 
{Head Uh December 'iSM.) 
In^ October 1824, the remains of a whale were found in 
the barony of Burnbank, which forms part of the estate of 
Blair-Drummond, at a place about three-fourths of a mile 
distant from the parish-church of Kincardine, in Monteith, 
and nearly a mile from the present course of the river 
Forth. The ground where the bones were found had been 
originally covered with peat-moss, which was a good many 
years ago floated into the Forth, in the course of the im- 
provements of that nature which have been so successfully 
and so extensively practised on that estate. The soil under 
this moss, is what is very well known by the description of 
Carse-clay, and it was in digging a ditch in the clay that 
the bones were found. The clay at this place is only four 
feet deep, as it is near the outer edge of the carse-land 
where it approaches the surrounding banks, which, in the 
language of the country, are all termed " dryfield,'"^ of 
ivhatcver description of soil they may consist, in contradis- 
