Geology
Found in 165 Collections and/or Records:
Note about marks in a rock at Glac a' Bhodaich, South Uist, c1872
Note about marks in a rock at Glac a' Bhodaich, South Uist [Uibhist a Deas]. The rock is at Glac a Bhodaich and is described as a 'flat sunfaced rock' with two marks 'as if done by a child a few y[ea]rs old in consistant mud - toes quite dist[inct]'. It also describes the situation of the rock.
Note about marks in rocks on Scalpay, c1872
Note about marks in rocks on Scalpay beside Raasay, Isle of Skye [Sgalpaigh, Ratharsaidh, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach], stating that the marks at Ceannamhine are 'as if a pot were boiling down & full of indents' and that at Leac a' Ghraodain below Scalpay House there are shell marks in the rock.
Note about Mol-garbh, 8 July 1870
Note about Mol-garbh [Mol Garbh, Tarasaigh/Taransay] describing it as a 'remarkable inst[ance] of the pow[er] of the waves in heap[ing] up a beach' and comparing the height of the beach with the mol on the isthmus.
Note about Mount's Bay, Cornwall, November 1873
Note about Mount's Bay, Cornwall that it has 'sunk much' and that Carmichael 'saw this when visiting St Michael's Mount'. He adds a reminder to 'See Johnson's remarks about Coll' [Cola, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]
Note about roots and moss, 11 July 1870
Note collected from Mr Archie Macrae [Archibald MacRae], that there are 'Roots and moss at Pairc na h-Aoi Northton Harris at low water' which MacRae had seen himself that summer.
Note about Sorchan a Ghille Hirstich and accompanying vocabulary note, 8 July 1870
Note about Sorchan a Ghille Hirstich [Sorachan a' Ghille Hiortaich] describing it as a big stone halfway between Paible and Aoi [Paibeil and Uidh, Tarasaigh/Taransay] with a comfortable seat in the back of it. The accompanying vocabulary note reads 'Eiteag. Eiteag na beinne = Spar rock'.
Note about stones thrown to and from Isle of Barra, September 1872
Note about stones thrown to and from Isle of Barra [Barraigh] which reads 'The mark fr[om] which stone Clach mhor nan Gleannan. Another thrown fr[om] Barra to Kilbrid[e]'.
Note about stones which create echoes, 1867
Note about stones which create echoes which reads 'Two rocks in San[dray] [Sanndraigh] which ans[wer] to each other E[ast] S[outh] E[ast] end. Ciste na Clithe in Bar[ra] [Ciste na Cli'eann, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] Vaslan [Vaslain] (Fala = creag) An echo here.'
Note about Taransay House and theland quality on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 10 July 1870
Note about Taransay House, Tarasaigh/Taransay describing its dimensions, construction and estimating it to have been built about three hundred years before [c1570]. Also mentioned is the 'fine large garden [of] good soil but ill cultivated' which leads on to a description of the land quality on the island, the presence of lazybeds and the 'Beautiful grazing...espe[cially] at Aoi Paible and Rà good water' [Uidh, Paibeil and Raah].
Note about the rock 'Bun-na craoibh', August 1903
Note about the rock 'Bun-na craoibh' [possibly Barraigh/Isle of Barra] describing it as 'a big sgeir [obscured] at high water. Follow draft curr[en]ts - the first rock to meet you.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.