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Note about freshwater otters and sea-otters, that there are madadh-uisge [freshwater otters] in Abhainn Chearrai [Abhainn Kerry/ River Kerry, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] and that a freshwater otter drowned a sea-otter at Coire Torridon at Ionnar Abh[ainn] a Choire [Mhic Nòbaill]. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Scope and Contents Notes for 6 lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', encompasing a wide variety of related subjects. Sir Archibald Geike looked at various geological periods and how both the areas occupied by land and water changed over time. He looked at the creation of many geological formations, at the materials they were composed of and the processes involved, including the infleunce of different elements within the natural world. He used as examples numerous locations, mostly within the British Isles but...

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Photograph of men camping with horses amongst the pine trees on the Hay River [Northwest Territories, Canada] on 23 October 1912.

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Photograph of a paddle boat steamer moored at the side of a river with a small crew of men in the wheelhouse in [Egypt?] in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of Parosse natives standing in dug-outs or canoes on the Zambesi River in Rhodesia in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of the profile cliff and the second zigzag of the Third Gorge on the Zambesi River in the early/mid 20th century.

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Photograph of trees near a river and their reflection.

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Riddle entitled 'Aiseag na h-Aimhne' in which an old man, an old woman and their two sons arrive at a river but the ferry can only hold a ton. The old man and woman are a ton each and their sons are half a ton each so the listener has to solve the problem of how they all get across.

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Photograph of the [Rio Grande] with a sandbar in a river with a cliff curving around on the right hand side.

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Photograph of the Rio Rai doso [Ruidoso] river in [New Mexico, United States] flowing next to a ranch and a mountain in the early 20th century.