THE ANCIENT VOLCANOES OF GREAT BRITAIN 
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266a. View of the south side of Staffa, showing the bedded and columnar structure of the 
basalt 
267. View of Rum from the harbour of Ganna ...... 
268. Section of the cliffs below Compass Hill, Isle of Canna ..... 
269. Lava cutting out conglomerate and shale. Shore below Canna House 
270. Section of shales and tuffs, with a coniferous stump lying between two basalt-sheets, 
Ciil nam Marbh, Canna ........ 
271. Dim M6r, Sunday. (From a photograph by Miss Thom) .... 
272. View of the Dim Beag, Sunday, seen from the south. (From a Photograph by Miss 
Thom) ........... 
273. View of Dim Beag, Sanday, from the north. The island of Rum in the distance. 
(From a Photograph by Miss Thom) ....... 
274. Section of eastern front of Dim Beag 
275. Enlarged section on the western side of Dim Beag ..... 
276. Geological map of the Island of Eigg ....... 
277. Section of the geological structure of the Island of Eigg .... 
278. View of the Scuir of Eigg from the east . ...... 
279. Natural section at the cliff of Bideanu Boidheach, north-west end of the Scuir of 
l^ioTcr ........... 
280. View of the Scuir of Eigg from the south ...... 
281. View of the Scuir of Eigg from the south-west of the Loch a Bhealaich, showing the 
bedded character of the mass ........ 
282. Section at the base of the Scuir of Eigg (east end) ..... 
283. Terraced hills of basalt plateati (Macleod’s Tables), Skye .... 
284. “ Macleod's Maidens ” and part of basalt cliffs of Skye . . . . . 
285. Intercalated group of strata between Basalts, An Ceannaieh, western side of Skye. 
286. Escarpment of Plateau-basalts, Cliffs of Talisker, Skye . . . . . 
287. Section of the largest of Macleod’s Maidens ...... 
28S. Dying out of lava-beds, east side of Sandb, Faroe Isles ..... 
289. Lenticular lavas, western front of Hesto, Faroe Isles ..... 
290. Lenticular lavas, east side of Svinb, Faroe Isles ..... 
291. Section at Frodbonyp, Sudero, Faroe ....... 
292. Fissure (gja) in a lava-field, Iceland. (From a photograph by Dr. Tempest 
Anderson) .......... 
293. Cones on the great Laki fissure, Iceland. (From a photograph by Dr. Tempest 
Anderson) .......... 
293t«. Plan of small craters along the line of great Laid fissure, Iceland. (After Mr. 
Holland, reduced) ......... 
291. Slemish, a volcanic neck or vent on the Antrim plateau, seen from the north . 
295. Section of volcanic vent at Carnmony Hill (E. Hull) ..... 
296. Section of the east side of Scawt Hill, near Glenarm ..... 
297. Section of Neck of basalt, Bendoo, Ballintoy . . . . . 
298. Volcanic Neck of dolerite near Cushendall ...... 
299. Section of Volcanic Neck at ’S Airde Beinne, near Tobermory, Mull 
300. Interior of the Volcanic Neck of ’S Airde Beinne, near Tobermory, Mull 
301. Diagram to show the probable relation of the Neck at Carrick-a-raide, Antrim, to an 
adjacent group of tuffs ........ 
302. Section of agglomerate Neck at Maclean’s Nose, Ardnamurclian 
303. Diagram to show the probable relations of the rooks on the southern flank of Beinn 
Dearg Blieag .......... 
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