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2Inp GROUP—UNSCULPTURED SLABS. 
1. At Dalarran Holm—A conspicuous object on the left as 
the visitor drives from the Royal Burgh of New-Galloway to 
Dalry. Its position is 150 feet above sea level. It is a natural 
slab, rudely four-square, and was probably brought from the 
Mulloch hill, where the rock splits up into this form of long, 
narrow slabs. It is 8 feet above ground, and its sides are about 
2 feet to 2 feet 6 inches wide. It is supposed to commemorate a 
battle between Danes and Scots. 
2, 3, and 4 are all on the farm of Hed Castle, in Urr parish. 
Chalmers, in ‘“ Caledonia,” says the tallest was “rising 14 feet 
from the ground ;” but unless some very extraordinary changes 
in the surface have occurred, that must be a misstatement, 
since, although this stone is the tallest I have measured in the 
Stewartry, it is only 9 feet high. Two of its sides are 2 feet 
6 inches wide, and the others 2 feet 3 inches. It is granite, and 
on the east side there is a deep natural fissure so remarkably 
like an incised cross as to be deceptive at the distance of a few 
yards. ‘This stone is not in view of the other two, one of which 
is in view of the celebrated Mote of Urr. They are compara- 
tively small, being but-some five feet high. 
5. This is a set of four long, narrow, squarish slabs, known in 
Anwoth as the Standing Stones of Newton, and really the grave- 
posts of a huge prehistoric interment, which, I think, has never 
been opened. 
6. Standing Stone of Bagbie—In the parish of Kirkmabreck, 
adjoining the last. It is 500 feet above sea level, and stands in 
a bare, lonely field a little way south of the old Kirkyard of 
Kirkmabreck. It is five feet high, and in thickness 3 feet 4 inches 
by 10 inches. There are traces of other stones, some prostrate, 
within a few dozen yards, which lead one to surmise this may 
have been once a stone circle. 
7 and 8. On Dranandow Moor, Minnigaff. I have not seen 
these stones, but in Mackenzie’s “‘ History of Galloway ” they are 
stated to be about 8 feet high, and were supposed to mark the place 
of execution of assassins who killed Randolph (Regent of David 
Bruce) in 1330. The stones are popularly called The Thieves. 
9. On the farm of Standing Stone, Borgue. When I saw it, it 
was not in its original site, having fallen when the late Mrs 
Gordon of Conchieton (who was proprietrix also of Standing 
