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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 v^here 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 oi 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 OiRce-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. 
