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(2.) Of boulders which have undoubtedly been transported either 
from Cantyre or the Grampian Highlands, I may refer to the mass 
of mica slate about 8 or 10 tons, on the S.E. side of Hare Hill above 
Habbie’s How, which was first noticed by Mr Maclaren. 
(3.) On the other side of the valley, on the S.W. slope of North 
Black Hill, several smaller masses of white quartz rock occur, fully 
1300 feet above the sea-level. 
Masses of gneiss, mica- slate, and a hard metamorphic conglomerate, 
are found in tolerable abundance all over the district. 
3. Mr Croll, in “ Climate and Time,” gives the following obser- 
vations : — 
“ On ascending AUermuir Hill (1617 feet), Mr Bennie and I 
found its summit ice-worn and striated. The striae were all in one 
uniform direction, nearly east and west. On examining them with 
a lens, we had no difficulty in determining that the ice which 
affected them came from the west, not from the east. On the sum- 
mit of the hill we also found patches of boulder clay in hollow 
basins of the rock. At one spot it was upwards of a foot in depth, 
and rested on the ice-polished surface. Of 100 pebbles collected 
from the clay, just as they turned up, every one, with the exception 
of 3 or 4 composed of hard quartz, presented a flattened and ice- 
worn surface, and 44 were distinctly striated. A number of these 
stones must have come from the Highlands to the north-west. 
“On ascending Scald Law (1808 feet), 4 miles S.W. of Aller- 
muir , we found in the debris covering its summit hundreds of 
transported stones of all sizes, from 1 to 18 inches in diameter” 
(pp. 441, 442). 
2. Remarks on the Boulder Report by the Convener of the 
Committee, read (in the absence of Mr Milne Home, Con- 
vener), by Mr Ralph Richardson, Member of Committee. 
This Report contains information applicable to three districts of 
country, namely — 
1. Pentland Hills. 
2. Morayshire. 
3. Islands of the West Coast, and 
part of the Mainland. 
