of Edinhurgh, Session 1883-84. 879 
current, and presented the same scooping and polished appearance 
with the rest of the rock, both above and below.” 
In the year 1855 the late Eobert Chambers, also a Fellow of the 
Eoyal Society, who had previously paid much attention to glacial 
phenomena, visited the Faroes, and wrote an interesting account of 
what he saw. He explains, that being aware of Mr Allan’s dis- 
covery at Fide, he went there on purpose to study the markings on 
the rocks. The following is his description ir— “ There are some 
small fields under cultivation. Every here and there the rocks 
are presented on the surface, where they are invariably seen rounded 
or flattened, with peculiar deep channelings, precisely like those 
rocks which are now generally believed to have been abraded by 
ice. My attention being arrested by these features, I looked 
narrowly for the striae or scratches which ice generally leaves on 
surfaces over which it has passed. They presented themselves 
in abundance, in. several places, most strikingly of all, within 
sea-mark on the shore of the quiet bay, heing all directed from 
the north, which is also, the direction of the canaugc- or channel- 
ings, and further of the passage or isthmus in which the village 
(of Eide) lies.” 
In his Memoir on th& Faroe Islands, Dr James Gcikie (p. 246) 
referring to the same locality of Eide, says, that “ perhaps the best 
preserved roches moutonnees we anywhere observed were in Osteroe 
and Sandoe., It was with considerable interest that we^ visited the 
northern portion of the former island, for we felt that the evidence 
to be gathered there would, go a long way to settle the question 
which we had come to solve. Ho difficulty was experienced in 
finding the- locality described so long ago by Allan, and subse- 
quently visited by Chambers, but the striae, instead of being 
‘ directed from the north,^ had clearly been graved by ice coming 
from quite the opposite point of the compass. The Kodlen peninsula 
we found glaciated all over, the roches moidonn'ees on both sides of 
the isthmus being beautifully perfect, and showing Stogs and Lee- 
seiten in the most admirable manner. In many places the striae are 
well seen, and long ruts and channelings, or grooves and trenches, 
well smoothed and ice-worn, traverse the rock surface. We traced 
the glaciated contour up to a height of 1302 feet, which was the 
summit level of the pass leading from Eide to Funding ; but the 
