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| GLEN ROY | [continued from page 160] Ancient Glen Roy, then was a laKe which, subsiding first by a vertical depth of 82 feet, left it shores to form the uppermost line; which by a second subsidence of 212 feet, produced the second; and which on its final drainage, left the third and lowest, and the present valley also, such as we now see it. At its lowest level, at least, it formed a common laKe with the valley of the Spean of which laKe Loch Laggan remains a memorial as does Loch Treig of the portion which occupied that valley" It is a difficult matter to point out the place of the barriers of Such a laKe, although there must have been one at Loch Spey, and there must have been another at Loch Laggan; more difficult still is every attempt to determine the means by which these barriers had been removed. The abrupt and sudden transition from one line to another shows that it was not by gradual abrasion, and their perfect parallelism declares against the convulsion of an earthquaKe The theory that these "roads" were successive shores of a laKe, whose level was abruptly lowered on Several occassions, is however, by no means universally admitted; the advocate of the glacial theory sees in them the effects of a mighty glacier, steadily but irresistibly ploughing its way from Ben Nevis; whilst we, were it permitted us to voice on such a subject, would venture to looK upon these "roads" as beaches of an arm of the sea once filling this lonely glen, whilst the land by successive starts was rising above the ocean level. This view of these phenomena has been ably supported by Mr Robert Chalmers of Edinburgh All along the valley of the spey, where the banKs have been cut, as in the maKing of roads successive layers of sand and shingle, from ten to twelve feet deep have been exposed, thus forcibly reminding the traveller of Coleridge's "Water, water everywhere. But not a drop to drinK". We shall only add that the leaned geologist of whose description we have so fully availed ourselves, was under mistaKe when he stated "that the world has not yet produced anywhere [ellse] a similar phenomenon." as similar appearances have been found in Switzerland. Cont. [Continued] on page 194 |
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