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THE paper in NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 400, by Prof. Archibald Geikie, on the glacial phenomena of the north-west coast, of Scotland, contains on many points a most true and graphic description of a most, peculiar and a most interesting, country. But I demur to its accuracy on one of the main features to which he refers. The amount of glaciation on the hills of Laurentian gneiss, as represented in the sketch on p. 401, is inordinately exaggerated. I know that country well, both in its general aspect and in its details, and no part of it presents such a scene of symmetrically rounded hills, like the huts of Caffres in Zululand, as that depicted in the sketch.
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ARGYLL A Fragment of Primeval Europe. Nature 22, 407–408 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022407a0
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