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its surface. It may be seen in boulders which have been broken up 
for fencing purposes, showing the interior composition very well, 
along the road from Conan village to Ferintosh, where it forms the 
greater part of the dyke that skirts the highway. It occurs right on 
the summit of the Mulbuie, or Yellow Kidge, which forms the back- 
bone of the Black Isle. It can be seen there to good advantage, 
along the old road between Dingwall and Inverness, which ran right 
over the Mulbuie between Conan and Tor Inn, a path which must 
now be traversed on foot, and which commands a magnificent pro- 
spect. These granite blocks are scattered all over the eastern slopes 
of the Mulbuie, and may be seen on the Black Isle coast of the 
Moray Firth, as at Avoch, Fortrose, and along the district traversed 
by the high road leading to Cromarty. 
The blocks have been carried across, not only the ridge of the 
Black Isle, but what is now the Moray Firth, to beyond Elgin, and 
they may be seen on the coast between Burgh ead and Lossiemouth. 
At Lossiemouth, on the high ridge of Stotfielcl above Branderburgh, 
several masses may be observed in the dyke above the Public School. 
I have no notes of its appearance east of this point. 
II. THE LOCH NESS GRANITE. 
At the northern end of Loch Hess, on its western side, a large 
patch of red granite exists along the shore — from a point a little 
south of Loch End Hotel, at a burn just opposite Dores, to a point 
about a mile south of the mouth of the Abriachan Burn — and extends 
westwards from the loch in a triangular outline some two or more 
miles broad, forming the mass of the high hill between Loch End 
and Abriachan, which there bounds the loch. This granite is fine- 
grained and of a light pinkish colour, and is used for commercial 
purposes, numerous examples of it being to be seen in Tom-na- 
Hurich cemetery near Inverness, and elsewhere. The smallness and 
compactness of its component ingredients are its chief peculiarities. 
It occurs in the abundant gravel deposits to the eastwards of Loch 
Hess, in Tom-na-Hurich for instance, as noted long ago by George 
Anderson, the eminent geologist and joint author of Anderson’s 
excellent guide-books to the Highlands; and eastwards of this, 
on heyond Hairn and Forres. It is found less in large boulders, 
though it occurs in considerable masses, than as forming part of 
