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slate. Iam not aware that any rock of the same nature 
exists much nearer to it than sevenmiles. Its present situa- 
tion is on the sands in the little bay near Castle Stuart on 
the Mercey Firth. Its size is very considerable, being as 
near as I could guess above four feet high at its most eleva- 
ted point, calculating from the surface of the sand and be- 
ing to all appearance about one foot imbedded in it. It 
measures between four and six feet one way by six or seven 
the other ; its shape, which is very particular, is peculiarly 
well adapted to admit of the mode of transportation, it 
underwent, as it had a projecting edge, all round it, the low- 
er edge of which, is above a foot of perpendicular height 
from the surface of the sand, and from this edge downwards, 
the stone is suddenly bevilled off in a form resembling 
that part of the bottom of a boat which is under the bell 
and approaching the keel. On as near a calculation as I 
can make, it may weigh about eight tons. ~ 
his large mass is remarkable for having been removed 
from a situation which it formerly occupied, about 260 yards 
farther to the S. S. E.. by natural means, and in the course 
of one night to the position where it now stands. It had 
formerly served as a boundary stone between the proper- 
ties of Castle Stuart and Culloden, the former belonging to 
thé Earl of Moray and the latter to Duncan Forbes, Esq. 
As it is too ponderous to have been moved by human pow- 
er, at least in that part of the country, it must have been 
originally deposited in that its first place of rest, by causes 
similar to those whi ve covered whole countries: with 
boulders, the nature of which bespeaks their having be- 
longed to rocks no where existing in situ in their entire 
and native state, in the vicinity of their present place of 
abode. The stranger scarcely recognizes the spot from 
which it was last removed, it being marked by a woode 
post which the two contiguous proprietors were u 
necessity of erecting in order to supply the place of the 
stone, and to serve as an object for defining its line of 
march. At a fishing village situated above a mile to 
the westward of the stone, I learned several particulars 
with respect to its extraordinary migration. But it was 
recommended to me to call on the miller of Pitly for 
a fuller detail of the facts, who, living much nearer the 
stone, and having it constantly in view fora series of years, 
not only recollected every circumstance about it, but was. 
