CARSE, a word signifying a flat piece of ground, has been applied to three several tracts of country in Scotland, namely, the Carse of Falkirk, the Carse of Gowrie, and the Carse of Stirling. It was long matter of plausible conjecture that these flat tracts of land on the borders of large rivers had been formed by the deposition of alluvial matter and the change of the water-courses; and the light of modern science, with careful investigation, has confirmed the fact. Bones of large marine animals have been found embedded many feet below the surface of the soil; thus demonstrating that such places must have been at some former period, but subsequently to the Mosaic deluge, within the flow of the sea. Some years ago the perfect skeleton of a whale was found at Airthrie, in the Carse of Stirling, many miles from the sea, or the Frith of Forth, and a considerable distance from the present course of the river. Anchors, and other artificial articles, have at various times been found in the Carse of Falkirk. The nature of the soil of these carses is also probative of the fact.