MAIN CURRENT IN SCOTLAND FROM THE NORTH-WEST. 205 
of Stirling, and on the east coast of Berwickshire, and generally 
where deviations have not arisen from local causes, it appears to 
have been from the north-west*. 
* The whole of this paper is so very accurate and satisfactory, that I strongly 
recommend the perusal of it to the attention of every one who has the smallest doubts as 
to the evidence there is to prove that the surface of the earth owes its last form not to 
the gradual action of existing causes, but to the excavating force of a suddenly over¬ 
whelming and transient mass of waters. 
