portion of one of them appears capping a hilltop. One almost refuses to
believe that the little outlier on the summit does not lie normally on
the rocks below it, but on a nearly horizontal fault by which it has
been moved into its place."

Of a similar example in Ross Shire he declares:

"Had these sections been planned for the purpose of deception, they
could not have been more skilfully devised, ... and no one coming first
to the ground would suspect that what appears to be a normal
stratigraphical sequence is not really so."[43]

[Footnote 42: "Manual," pp. 111, 534.]

[Footnote 43: _Nature_, November 13, 1884, pp. 29-35.]

Here again we have unequivocal testimony from the most competent of
observers that there is _no physical evidence whatever_ to lead any one
to say that a ponderous scale of the earth's crust was really pushed up
on top of other portions, as this makeshift theory of "thrust faults"
involves. The _fossils are here in the wrong order_, just as in the case
at Glarus; that is all. The facts seem to be a flat contradiction to the
theory of definite successive ages, and to save the theory this
explanation of a "thrust fault" is invented, though there is absolutely
no physical evidence of any disturbance of the strata.

Our next stopping place is in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of
eastern Tennessee and northern Georgia. Here we have the Carboniferous
strata dipping gently to the southeast, like an ordinary low monocline,
_under_ Cambrian or Lower Silurian, one of these so-called faults having