The Cruise of the Betsey Or Author:Hugh Miller Subtitle: A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of Tthe Hebrides ; With Rambles of a Geologist ; or Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1862 Original Publisher: Gould and Lincoln Subjects: Geology Science / Earth Sciences / General Sci... more »ence / Earth Sciences / Geology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. Structure of the Senir -- A stray Column -- The Piazza -- A burled Pine Forest the Foundation of the Scuir -- Geological Poachers in a Fossil Preserve -- rum,-, Eiggensis -- Its Description -- Wilham's Experiments on Fossil Pine of Eigg -- Rings of the Fine -- Ascent of the Scuir -- Appearance of the Top -- White Pltehstone -- Mr. Greig's Discovery of Pumice -- A Sunset Scene -- The Manse and the Yacht -- The Minister's Story -- A Cottage Repast -- American Timber drifted to the Hebrides -- Agency of the Gulf Stream -- The Minister's Shcep. As we climbed the hill-side, and the Shinar-like tower before us rose higher over the horizon at each step we took, till it seemed pointing at the middle sky, we could mark peculiarities in its structure which escape notice in the distance. We found it composed of various beds, each of which would make a Giant's Causeway entire, piled over each other like stories in a building, and divided into columns, vertical, or nearly so, in every instance except in one bed near the base, in which the pillars incline to a side, as if losing footing under the superincumbent weight. Innumerable polygonal fragments, -- single stones of the building, -- lie scattered over the slope, composed, like almost all the rest of the Scuir, of a peculiar and very beautiful stone, ...« less