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227 ft. 6 in. This measurement is not?given as strictly exact, but 
includes the diameter of each stone. The stones are not from the 
quarry in the hill-side, which is a soft clay slate ; but they present 
the usual forms of boulders obtained from the drifts of the glacial 
period. They are not granitic, and they are not silurian, yet seem 
to be metamorphic, judging from the appearance of white soft- 
looking grains of which they are largely composed, with one 
exception. This exception is the only one which is distinctly 
silurian, and is the most remarkable one in the whole circle, as it 
contains some of the “cup markings” on its flat top, which have 
so strongly attracted the notice of antiquarians of late. This stone 
has a flat top, but it is its natural top, and not made flat by the 
hand of man. It has two straight sides, the rest is roundish. 
From the angles two lines of 35 in. and 36 in. can be drawn. It 
has a circumference of nearly 10 ft, One of the cups is smaller 
than the others, of which there are three on the top, running in 
line nearly straight about a foot in length. A line drawn straight 
across the centres of the first and third would just cut the edge of 
the circumference of the second. The diameter of each of these 
three is the same, that is 8-10ths of an inch, and of capacity to 
hold a boy’s marble—not the faw, but the forfeits. A good 
counter might be able to run the number of holes round it to 
a higher figure, but there will be no difficulty in counting 12 
similar cups round the sides. The three on the top alone might 
arouse suspicion as to their great antiquity, but the others uphold 
their claim in a manner not to be disputed. 
3rd of February, 1888. 
Mr Tuomas SHORTRIDGE, ex-Provost, presided. Twenty-six 
members present. 
New Member.—Mrs Thompson, Rosemount Terrace. 
Donations.—Two volumes from the author, Mr Peter Gray, 
one on Fungi and Mosses, and the other on Seaweeds and Shells ; 
a pamphlet on the Rock-Sculpturings in Kirkeudbrightshire from 
the author, Mr George Hamilton; a Communion Token of the 
associated congregations of Dumfries, dated 1766, from Mr 
Barbour ; two Communion Tokens of St. Mary’s Church, Dumfries, 
from Mr William Allan; the Tokens of Balmaclellan, Dalry, 
Minnigaff, and Kells, from Mr M‘Andrew ; and of the following 
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