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exhibitins many ranges, each conſiſting of ſeveral hundred columns, 1ying in all directions, are to be met with in more Places than one. Some of the pillars are of gigantic ſtature, and about three feet diameter; others are extremely lender, not being in diameter above five inches."They are four, five, or ſix ſided, but moſt of them five. Some of them are indiſtin&ly jointed, others not. The hamatites, a calciform ore of iron, is found in ſmall quantities in Killearn and Fintry. Manyparts of the hills in Strathblane and Killearn are regular- 1y ftratified with alternate beds of till and an argillaceous Itone, containing a conſiderable proportion of lime and ANON A few very thin ſeams.of gypfum are likewiſe interſperſed among them. The quantity of till, however, is five or ſix times more than all the reſt. Some natural ſedions, as at Ballagan Spout, and the Corries of Balglaſs, exhibit more than a hundred of theſe regular ſtrata. Much of the lower lands in the vicinity of theſe places, is compoſed of a mix- ture of the ſubſlances that by the rains have bven waſhed down from the hills. It would ſeem from a general ſurvey of the globe, that moſt of the ſoil in any place confifts of the pulverized rocks or minerals that are in the neighbourhood, 2 circumſtance which renders even a very minute account of the mineralogy of a country not altogether unconneted with agriculture. Many parts of the fhire abound with lime and coal, as ſhall afterwards be more particularly mentioned.

GLIM ATE.

The weſt and ſouthweſt diſtriäs of the county are expo- ſed to frequent winds and heavy rains from the Atlantic ocean. The clouds in their courſe eaſtward are intercepted by the high ridges of hills already mentioned, which gene- rally receive the greateſt part of their watery contents. Some of the mountains, particularly Benlomond, penetrate ſo far into. the cold regions of the air, that the ſnow, near their ſummits, remains a great part of the year. The

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