124 Dr Fleming’s Remarks on the Modern Strata. 
bed may be traced, nearly at the same elevation, several miles 
to the westward, on the south bank of the Forth ; and at Alloa 
the same bed occurs, but the shells are in a more broken state, 
and occur at a much lower level 
Two interesting facts have recently been made public, in all 
probability connected with the inundation of the sea, which de- 
posited the shells now referred to. In July 1819, the skeleton 
of a whale was found imbedded in Lacustrine silt, at the marsh 
between the estate of Airthrey, belonging to Sir Robert Aber- 
cromby, Baronet, and the estate of Fowls, the property of Ed- 
ward Alexander, Esq., near Stirling. The skeleton was about 
72 feet long, giving indication of its being a Razor-back, and 
was situate 20 feet above the rise of the highest tides in the 
Forth Another skeleton of a whale has been discovered, in 
similar circumstances, on the opposite side of the Forth, near 
Dunmore Park, the seat of the Right Honourable Lord Dun- 
more. It probably belonged likewise to a Razor-back, as it is 
stated to have measured from 85 to 90 feet in length. It was 
situate in the same lacustrine silt, and ‘‘ between 23 and 24 feet 
higher than the highest tide of the Forth at present “I* *.” In the 
same bed of lacustrine silt, stags’ horns are occasionally found. 
Disposed as we are to connect the bed of marine shells with the 
skeletons of the whales, and to consider that one inundation 
placed these remains of different marine animals in such pecu- 
liar situations ; other relics of the inhabitants of the deep may yet 
be looked for on both banks of the Forth and its lateral valleys. 
Indications of violent commotions in the German Ocean, oc- 
casioning inundations in the connected friths, likewise occur to 
the northward. In the Statistical Account of the Parish of 
Peterhead, by the Rev. Dr Moir (vol. xvi. p. 558.), it is stated, 
that fossil shells are found in great quantities, 20 or SO feet 
above the present level of the sea ; and it is remarkable, that 
some of them are of a larger size than any that are now to be 
found on the coast.” In the account of the Parish of Nig, Ross- 
* See Mr Bald’s valuable paper on the Coal Formation of Clackmannanshire, 
JVcj'Ti. Mem, i. 484*. 
* Mr Bald, — Edin. Phil. Journ. vol. i. p. 393. 
'f Mr Reddoch, — Edin. Phil. Journ. vol. xi. p. 415., (where, by mistake, the 
name is printed Keddoch), 
