NEAR CASTLE-STUART. 



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which are thus known to have operated in produ- 

 cing the removal of this vast fragment, may appear 

 to tally with the relative situation of similar masses 

 in other places which cannot be so easily traced to 

 their parent rock, or to ascertain whether such means 

 may not have had some share in transporting these 

 to their new situations, may perhaps merit inves- 

 tigation ; and with such a view, an accurate and 

 well attested narration of the particulars of the 

 conveyance of the Travelled Stone near Castle- 

 Stuart, from its former to its present place of qui- 

 escence, cannot be considered as altogether useless 

 in the pursuit of geology. Yours, &c. 



Relugas, "i 

 '3d May 1817. j" 



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