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resting along the foot of this crag. From hence the same beds are continued to 
North Sannox, where the cliffs disappear. At this point the anticlinal line is very 
obvious, and all the strata, as far as Clackland point, dip to the south, in an as¬ 
cending order. Here also the primary schist thins out to such a degree as almost 
to disappear, and the conglomerate occupies nearly the whole basin far back into 
Glen Sannox, and may be traced even to the granitic ridge. Some of the lowest 
beds of the conglomerate, in this region, assume very much the appearance of 
grauwacke slate, and are traversed by dykes of greenstone. At Mid Sannox the 
cliffs present a mural escarpment, the lines of which are nearly horizontal; but at 
South Sannox they dip most decidedly to the south. Near the village of Corry 
the conglomerate is surmounted by a white and spotted sandstone, and the conglo¬ 
merate here finally disappears. Mr. Murchison, speaking of this rather singular 
formation, says: “ On a great scale it is to be viewed as a red conglomerate with 
many subordinate beds of sandstone, which cannot, either from the nature of the 
pebbles or the cementing principle, be distinguished from the newer conglomerate; 
neither can the sandstone of the one series be described as differing from the other. 
The existence, however, in the one deposite of beds of arenaceous grauwacke 
slate near the bottom, and that of the cornstone in the upper part of the formation, 
strongly identify it with the old red sandstone. Moreover, independently of any 
such distinctive character, the intervention of the well-developed group of the car¬ 
boniferous series enables us with certainty to separate the two great deposites of 
conglomerates from each other, and to arrange them with the analogous members 
of English geology. In one respect, however, these deposites differ materially 
from those of the same age in England, since there appear to have been no dis¬ 
turbing forces to interrupt the continuity and conformity of the beds from the base 
of the older conglomerates, through the carboniferous series up to the highest beds 
of the new red conglomerate—these several formations being not only parallel to, 
but actually graduating into each other.” 
At Corry there are quarries of freestone—a kind of grit, from which good flag¬ 
ging-stones have been taken; but they are now nearly exhausted. The term 
“ Corry” is Gselic, and signifies a deep bowl or depression in the mountains. The 
limestone which underlies the freestone is compact, of a bluish color, aud abounds 
with fossils, among which are the large prnduda Scotica, the spirifer striatus, 
cardium alseforme, and the madreporites usually found in mountain limestone. 
The coast is covered with immense boulders of granite, which must have been 
transported by some tremendous moving power from the mountains in the interior. 
The granite here, where found in situ , is evidently intrusive, and is surrounded, 
or rather encased, by the slates, whose strata have been obviously disturbed by the 
protrusion through them of the granite. 
The granitic mountains, rising in high and jagged peaks, present a most bold 
and beautiful outline. GoatsfelJ, above Brodich Castle, is the highest on the 
island, and the most striking in appearance. It is composed of a coarse-grained 
and old granite. As we approach Brodich, after passing the lofty summits of 
Goatsfeld, we coast along “the great upcast of the coal measures,” where the 
