Dr Fleming’s Remarlcs on the Modern Strata. 1^5 
shire, (voi. xiii. p. 21.), it is said, that ‘‘ in the place of Anker- 
ville, a part of the property of Mr Cockburn Ross of Shand- 
wicke, in a bank removed at more than the distance of a mile 
from the sea, and raised many Jeet above its level, there is a 
stratum of oyster-shells of considerable extent, and above half a 
foot in depth ; they lie about three feet below the surface of the 
ground, and, underneath them, thei’e is a stratum of fine sand, 
like that on the sea-shore.” In the Transactions c^the Royal 
Society of Edinburgh (vol. x. p. 105.), there is a ‘‘ Notice re- 
specting the Vertebra of a Whale found in a bed of bluish 
clay near Dingwall,” by Sir G. S. Mackenzie, Baronet. The 
bone was found in a bed of marine diluvium, consisting of a 
dark bluish clay, much mixed with sea-shells, three miles dis- 
tant from high- water-mark, and 12 feet in height above the level 
of the sea. The occurrence of this bone and accompanying shells, 
when viewed in connection with the oyster-shells at Ankerville, 
in a different part of the Bay of Cromarty, give indications of 
an inundation of the sea in that quarter, similar to that which 
appears to have taken place in the Frith of Forth, and with 
which it was probably cotemporary. 
On the west side of the country depositions of marine dilu- 
vium have likewise been noticed, corresponding in character with 
those on the eastern coast. 
On cutting through a bed of sand and clay, which is about 
feet above the level of the present bed of the Clyde, nearly 
four miles from Glasgow, and in the line of the Ardrossan Ca- 
nal, a considerable accumulation of marine shells was met with. 
These consist of the common species at present inhabiting the 
Frith of Clyde, but at a distance of twenty miles from the spot 
where these relics are situate. The notice of this occurrence, by 
Captain Laskey, is inserted in the Annals (f Philosophy for 
February 1814, vol. hi. p. 150., and Wernerian Memoirs^ vol. iv. 
p. 568. 
The marine deposits which occur on the banks of Loch Lo- 
mond, have been minutely described by Mr James Adamson, in 
Wernerian Memoirs^ vol. iv. p. 33 k These occur in three dif- 
ferent places on the margin of the loch. In one place, the sea- 
shells are united with compact calc-tuff, — in the other they are 
